Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, has died. He leaves behind a legacy as a dogged peacemaker and a decent, ethical ...

The Camp David Accords and the treaty that resulted dramatically reduced the odds of general war — even superpower confrontation — in the Middle East.

The former American president was a complex and confounding man, says his biographer, Jonathan Alter, who looks at the extraordinary life and achievements of this misunderstood man and the people who ...

Alter indicates that Carter by-and-large, avoided any involvement in the civil rights movement, including never meeting with ...

President Jimmy Carter appointed more judges to the federal bench than any other president has done in a single term.

I spoke with Jonathan Alter. He wrote one of the most beloved biographies on the former president.

“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider ,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of ...

"Sunday Morning" looks back on the life of a public servant who sought to restore Americans' faith in the integrity of their government, and who was a Nobel Peace Prize-winner for his remarkable ...

Journalist and author Jonathan Alter said, "He was humble ... As Alter characterized it, "The roof caved in on Jimmy Carter." And so, Carter would lose to the upbeat message of Ronald Reagan.

Jonathan Alter is an MSNBC analyst and the author of “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.” In the final years of his life, the nation that once shunned and pitied Jimmy Carter began giving ...