Carter often followed his instincts and did what he believed was right, according to Kai Bird, biographer and author of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. "He was always the ...

Kai Bird, against all odds? As I said, you called your book "The Outlier." How was Jimmy Carter an outlier? Kai Bird, Author, "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter": Well ...

The 39th president of the United States died at 100 today.

And it’s because of a lot of hard work by people who, in a surprising number of cases, were inspired by Jimmy Carter. Kai Bird: I would agree with that. Human rights was a major achievement by ...

While in the Navy, he had been an officer aboard one of the earliest nuclear-powered submarines, according to Kai Bird, author of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Carter often followed his instincts and did what he believed was right, according to Kai Bird, biographer and author of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. "He was always the ...

Jimmy Carter revivalists argue that his legislative accomplishments reveal a prolific presidency, and his failures the ...

One of the most enduring aspects of Jimmy Carter's presidency is his ... to be a "key part of his administration." Carter biographer Kai Bird, told CBS News that Carter was willing to push his ...

The death at 100 of the US’s 39th and longest living president, James Earl Carter, a peanut farmer ... to use power righteously,” biographer Kai Bird would write, “ignore politics, and ...

Mary Prince went from a Georgia prisoner to Amy Carter’s White House caretaker. It’s a story difficult to imagine in any modern presidency but Jimmy Carter’s.

Kennedy and Ronald Reagan pop up regularly on bookstore shelves, Jimmy Carter for a long time generated ... books on his life and times. Kai Bird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, argues ...

“He was a genuine environmentalist,” said Kai Bird, the author of a biography of Carter called "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter." Bird explained that Carter’s ...