Jonathan Alter is at work on a biography of Jimmy Carter with the full cooperation of the former president, publisher Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday. Earlier this month, Carter, 90, shared the ...

The author of a Jimmy Carter biography, Jonathan Alter, shares what it was like for Carter growing up in Plains and throughout his journey to the White House. More for You.

President Jimmy Carter was an outlier in more ways than one. Born and raised on the humble farmlands of southern Georgia, Carter grew up without running water and used an outhouse. He played with ...

President Jimmy Carter, pictured at 1980 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City, is the topic of a new biography by Jonathan Alter.

— BIRTH NAME: James Earl Carter, Jr. — BORN: Oct. 1, 1924, at the Wise Clinic in Plains, Georgia, the first U.S. president born in a hospital. He would become the first president to live for ...

The Carter family gave Mark Strassman a unique glipmse into the former president's long life. The birthday tributes have already started for Jimmy Carter, who will turn 100 this Tuesday. They ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia. — BIRTH NAME: James Earl Carter, Jr. — BORN: Oct. 1, 1924, at the Wise Clinic in Plains, Georgia, the first U.S ...

FILE - Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter holds his daughter, Amy, just after he made his official announcement that he would seek the Democratic nomination for presidency on Dec. 13, 1974, in Atlanta. (AP ...

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, ... This biography focuses on Carter's childhood, set against the Great Depression and a sharecropping economic structure.

Back in 1976, Carter changed the way presidential candidates are nominated and elected. He went on to provide models of what to do – and what not to do.

FILE - Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter holds his daughter, Amy, just after he made his official announcement that he would seek the Democratic nomination for presidency on Dec. 13, 1974, in Atlanta. (AP ...