“13 Days In September” Examines 1978 Camp David Accords

NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Lawrence Wright about his new book, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David. Wright also discusses the role that faith played in the negotiations. “These were three very religious men and they had come together to solve a problem that religion itself had largely caused,” Wright says. “There wouldn’t have been a Camp David if Jimmy Carter didn’t believe that God had placed him in office, in part, to bring peace to the Holy Land.”

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