When Jimmy Carter, a one-term Georgia governor, announced his bid for the presidency in December 1974, it was hard to take his ambitions seriously. A Gallup poll at the time asked voters to rank ...

Jimmy Carter has been named the most prolific author of any other former president after writing the most bestselling books, according to a chart published by The New York Times on his 100th ...

FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter holds a copy of his book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid,” at a book signing in Tempe, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File) ...

Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived U.S. president in history, holds another, less noticed distinction: He’s the most prolific author of any president in a century. Mr.

As expected, Mr. Carter led the pack, with 20 books that made The Times’s best-seller list. But figuring out which books were about each modern president was trickier. Reading them all seemed ...

When Jimmy Carter, a one-term Georgia governor, announced his bid for the presidency in December 1974, it was hard to take his ambitions seriously. A Gallup poll at the time asked voters to rank ...

Jimmy Carter’s many books were as direct and plainspoken as their author. The former president, who died at 100 on Sunday, was a prolific writer, especially in the decades after he left the ...