Periodically TIME presents its readers with an advance look at the memoirs of famous men. Excerpts first appeared in TIME from such works as Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev's Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), Anwar Sadat's In Search of Identity (1978), and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's White House Years (1979) and Years of Upheaval (1982). In this issue, TIME offers Part 1 of a two-part serialization of Jimmy Carter's Keeping Faith, the former President's personal account of his years in the Oval Office.
This week's excerpts tell of the President's hopes and fears through the dramatic 13 days at Camp...