it's a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall ballmer, professor at dartmouth college. i followed his career a long time. his undergraduate work done at a school my father was a dean and my brother, joe, attended the school at the same time. randy has turned into o

it's a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall ballmer, professor at dartmouth college. i followed his career a long time. his undergraduate work done at a school my father was a dean and my brother, joe, attended the school at the same time. randy has turned into one of our great modern american historians. one of the things that makes him great, he really mines the resources of presidential libraries. he has come here to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents other people had not seen before. he's done that at other presidential libraries. combined with that, he has also mined the resources of archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. in addition to that, on top of his research skills he is an excellent writer. i had the privilege of reading many of his books including the one that's just come out. i can tell you as much as i have followed the subjects and done my own research, there were many points i came across new information, i said, wow, that really explains what's going on. if you want to

. >> up next on history book shelf, randal ballmer on his book redeemer. he'll examine the role religion played in mr. carter's victory over gerald

. >> up next on history book shelf, randal ballmer on his book redeemer. he'll examine the role religion played in mr. carter's victory over gerald ford in the 1976 election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. reagan. mr. balmer spoke at the jimmy carter museum in atlanta back in 2014. >> welcome. it's a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. i have followed his career for a long time. his under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. and randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. one of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of presidential libraries. he really mines the resources of presidential libraries. he has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. and he has done that at other presidential libraries. combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangel