For my entire career, it’s seemed, the Republican Party has run against Jimmy Carter ... been altered (no pun intended, biographer Jonathan Alter). He now gets justified credit for the ...

However, Alter’s Jimmy Carter biography, “His Very Best,” is among several that conclude his four years in the White House were anything but a failure. Jonathan Alter, Author and Historian ...

This column was adapted from the author's book “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.” Jonathan Alter Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, political analyst, documentary filmmaker ...

President Jimmy Carter flew to New York in October 1977 ... The Carter biographer Jonathan Alter wrote that the publicity stunt with the Rockettes helped bring him name recognition, as did a ...

Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter ... in the same God,” Carter told biographer Jonathan Alter, as he traced his ...

“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon.

Chris Matthews, who was a speechwriter for former President Jimmy Carter, and Jonathan Alter, author of “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life,” join Andrea Mitchell to speak about the 39th ...

“My colleagues kept referring to Jimmy Carter as a ‘good ... it gets — to not alienate whites. As Jonathan Alter recalls in his superb Carter biography, “His Very Best,” the candidate ...

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in ... in a town that thrives on relationships, said biographer Jonathan Alter, describing a president who struggled with schmoozing ...