His works touched on religion, politics, his family's history and his presidency — in addition to kids books and fiction Scott Cunningham/Getty Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United ...

"Of all our modern presidents, Jimmy Carter was America’s most protean author," Jonathan Karp, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, told Publisher's Weekly. "President Carter wrote memoirs ...

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 signs copies of his book “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power” in New York City in 2014. Carter was a prolific author. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images) Perspective ...

By Peter Baker While new books on presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan pop up regularly on bookstore shelves, Jimmy Carter for a long time generated little ...

Throughout his lifetime, Jimmy Carter held many titles: 39th president of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner, philanthropist, humanitarian, artist – and writer. In his role as an author, ...

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University and author of “The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey to the Nobel ...

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 most ...

When Jimmy Carter, a one-term Georgia governor ... agreed to publish the book — but with no advance money for the author. Carter’s knack for being right was proved when “Why Not the Best?” ...