One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.

“He’s the engineer who became president,” said Kai Bird, author of a recent biography, “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.” “He valued expertise. He hired dozens ...

We borrow from both in our analysis here. Jonathan Alter, “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life,” New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020. Kai Bird, “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of ...

Jimmy Carter was a genuine Washington outsider when ... s state funeral in Washington is full of ironies,” said Kai Bird, who titled his 2021 biography of Mr. Carter “The Outlier” for ...

Remembering Carter as we steel ourselves for Trump ... (Readers who want more detail should consult Nation editorial board member Kai Bird’s sympathetic biography The Outlier.) ...

biographer Kai Bird wrote in “Outlier, The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.” He told his mother then, “I’m going to walk among the people who voted for me.” Carter’s connection ...

The December death of former President Jimmy Carter – still honored with flags at half-staff except by felon Donald Trump and his MAGAts – produced predictable “tributes.” ...