Jimmy Carter, peacemaker guided by moral vision but laid low by politics
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The 39th president was a Renaissance man who should be celebrated for his environment policy and his work for peaceJimmy Carter dies aged 100 – latest updatesJimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a Nobel peace prize-winning humanitarian, died on Sunday in Plains, Georgia, the tiny town where he and his formidable wife and life partner, Rosalynn, were born.Carter – the longest-lived and longest-married US president – is unlikely to be placed in the first rank of American leaders, but his single four-year term is now seen in a much better light than it was when he was best known for the seizure of American hostages in Iran and for his crushing loss to Ronald Reagan in 1980. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/jimmy-carter-politics-jonathan-alter-biographer
The 39th president was a Renaissance man who should be celebrated for his environment policy and his work for peaceJimmy Carter dies aged 100 – latest updatesJimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a Nobel peace prize-winning humanitarian, died on Sunday in Plains, Georgia, the tiny town where he and his formidable wife and life partner, Rosalynn, were born.Carter – the longest-lived and longest-married US president – is unlikely to be placed in the first rank of American leaders, but his single four-year term is now seen in a much better light than it was when he was best known for the seizure of American hostages in Iran and for his crushing loss to Ronald Reagan in 1980. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/jimmy-carter-politics-jonathan-alter-biographer