Jimmy Carter's kids are honoring their father. On January 9, the former president was laid to rest in a national funeral service at Washington's National Cathedral. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, ...
For many years, the 39th president generated little attention from authors. But recently books have sought to re-evaluate his ...
Rev. Tony Lowden will read a prayer Thursday in Washington and then preside over the private, final service for President Jimmy Carter in Plains.
The peanut farmer from Georgia was a virtual unknown when he launched his long-shot 1976 presidential bid that took him from ...
In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, biographer Kai Bird, author of 'The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter' discusses the late president's successes and failures.
Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption,” he said in his 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech. If ...
The author of a Jimmy Carter biography, Jonathan Alter, shares what it was like for Carter growing up in Plains and throughout his journey to the White House.
Alter indicates that Carter by-and-large, avoided any involvement in the civil rights movement, including never meeting with ...