Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, has died. He leaves behind a legacy as a dogged peacemaker and a decent, ethical ...

The Camp David Accords and the treaty that resulted dramatically reduced the odds of general war — even superpower confrontation — in the Middle East.

The former American president was a complex and confounding man, says his biographer, Jonathan Alter, who looks at the extraordinary life and achievements of this misunderstood man and the people who ...

President Jimmy Carter did more for the security of Israel than any American president other than Harry Truman.

This article originally appeared in Old Goats with Jonathan Alter and is reprinted with permission. I’ve written a lot about ...

That Carter had to say that at all illustrates how set apart the South was from the rest of the nation, even as late as the ...

President Jimmy Carter appointed more judges to the federal bench than any other president has done in a single term.

“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of ...

Elected in 1976 in the aftermath of Watergate, Jimmy Carter, the little-known governor of Georgia, believed he had a ...

Jimmy Carter grew up in Archery, Georgia with 20 other families – only two of which were white – according to Carter ...