Let’s imagine that Franklin D. Roosevelt had possessed the same gift for longevity as Jimmy Carter and lived until he was 100. He would have died in1982, in Ronald Reagan’s second year in office.

At first, Jimmy Carter was a political wizard. But he couldn’t keep the magic act going.

Jimmy Carter redefined his legacy after his presidency. Other presidents, especially Hoover and Nixon, tried but failed to outrun or outwork their unhappy presidential legacies. Like John Quincy Adams ...

New Orleans rapper Lil’ Wayne — born Dwayne Carter — incorporates clips from Jimmy Carter’s inauguration speech into his 2011 song, “President Carter .” Even Jimmy Carter Boulevard, the Gwinnett ...

Historian Douglas Brinkley said Carter "raised the bar" on what was expected of presidents after leaving the White House and ...

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to ... At that time, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt was at the beginning of his first term. Had Coolidge lived as long as Carter, he would have ...

Whatever ceremonial respect Jimmy Carter gets paid while he's lying in state, it's unlikely to change his historical reputation as a second-rater. The scholars who fill out the presidential rankings ...

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a ...

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 ...

The late President Jimmy Carter in particular decided to do something no other president has done before and it has now ...