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NEW YORK (AP) — No ex-president had a more prolific and diverse publishing career than Jimmy Carter . His more than two dozen books included nonfiction, poetry, fiction, religious meditations and a children’s story. His memoir “An Hour Before Daylight” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002, while his 2006 best-seller “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” stirred a fierce debate by likening Israel’s policies in the West Bank to the brutal South African system of racial segregation. And just before his 100th birthday, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation honored him with a lifetime achievement award for how he wielded “the power of the written word to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.” In one recent work, “A Full Life,” Carter observed that he “enjoyed writing” and that his books “provided a much-needed source of income.” But some projects were easier than others. “Everything to Gain,” a 1987 collaboration with his wife, Rosalynn, turned into the “worst threat we ever experienced in our marriage,” an intractable standoff for the facilitator of the Camp David accords and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. According to Carter, Rosalynn was a meticulous author who considered “the resulting sentences as though they have come down from Mount Sinai, carved into stone.” Their memories differed on various events and they fell into “constant arguments.” They were ready to abandon the book and return the advance, until their editor persuaded them to simply divide any disputed passages between them. “In the book, each of these paragraphs is identified by a ‘J’ or an ‘R,’ and our marriage survived,” he wrote. Here is a partial list of books by Carter: “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President” “The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East” (With Rosalynn Carter) “Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life” “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections” “Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age” “Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems” (With daughter Amy Carter) “The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer” “Living Faith” “The Virtues of Aging” “An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood” “Christmas in Plains: Memories” “The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War” “Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis” “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World” “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” “A Remarkable Mother” “Beyond the White House” “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work” “White House Diary” “NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter” “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power” “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”LIZ Kendall today tells Brits “if you can work - you must” as she prepares to take benefits away from young adults who refuse jobs and training. Britain spends an eye-popping £150 billion a year on benefits for people of working age, according to official numbers. And the bill is set to balloon as record numbers are signed off sick. Work and Pensions Secretary Ms Kendall vowed to crack the whip to get people off benefits, telling The Sun on Sunday: “I’ve always believed, if you can work, you must. “For young people, this is not only about the opportunity to work, it’s also about skills and training, because today’s world is brutal if you don’t have skills.” Shocking stats show nearly 1 million under-25s are not in education, employment or training - dubbed NEETs. Read more on benefits “That is terrible for them, it’s terrible for businesses, many of whom are desperate to recruit, and it’s terrible for taxpayers seeing an ever higher benefits bill”, Ms Kendall said . She will this week announce plans for a radical shake up of the welfare system aimed at driving people back to work. She will offer every Brit aged 21 and under, work or training. Those who refuse will be stripped of their handouts. Most read in The Sun Ms Kendall said: "My commitment to young people is this - I value you. I believe in you. I will offer you the chances and choices you deserve. “But in return for that, you have a responsibility to take them up.” This ‘youth guarantee’ is part of a new carrot and stick approach to welfare. These are tougher sanctions than those faced by other adults, who just have their benefits reduced if they refuse to look for work. Ministers are braced for a possible backlash from faint-hearted Labour MPs. But Ms Kendall said it would be a betrayal to leave youngsters on the jobs scrapheap. The welfare white paper - out on Tuesday - will also confirm that £3bn a year will be cut from welfare by reassessing people in disability and sickness benefits for work. This is known as the work capability assessment. Although precise details of how this will be done will come out next year. Job centres will also get more cash to turn them into better careers advice services - open to those who want to change jobs not just benefit claimants.