For many years, the 39th president generated little attention from authors. But recently books have sought to re-evaluate his ...

Carter published his first book, a campaign autobiography titled “Why Not the Best?” in 1975. Since then, he’s written more than 30 works. “Of all our modern Presidents, Jimmy Carter was America’s ...

Jimmy Carter Once Answered My ... the wisdom he gathered in this meditative book. An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (2001) This biography focuses on Carter's childhood, set ...

John Amis AP President Jimmy Carter’s legacy includes ... Published in in 2001, this book was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. One of the reasons this memoir is so successful ...

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.

The 39th president helped create the U.S. Department of Education. He had also been a school board member and an ...

The former president, who died at 100 on Sunday, was a prolific writer, especially in the decades after he left the White House.

When Jimmy Carter ... candidates; Carter didn’t even make the list. Desperate to introduce himself to voters outside of Georgia, Carter began writing the campaign autobiography “Why Not ...