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 ...

Interview with Jimmy Carter's biographer Jonathan Alter. Posted: January 8, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025. I spoke with Jonathan Alter. He wrote one of the most beloved biographies on the ...

Jonathan Alter, who first wrote for The New Republic during the Carter Administration, is the author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.

As Alter wrote in Time magazine after Carter’s death Dec. 29: “His presidency — beset by a horrible economy, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the seizure of American hostages in Iran ...

The Carter Center; Jonathan Alter "His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life" by Jonathan Alter (Simon & Schuster), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, Available via Amazon, Barnes ...

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter sat in on husband Jimmy Carter’s Cabinet meetings and advocated for mental health legislation. She has died at 96. Nov. 19, 2023 ...

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life by Jonathan Alter (2020) In His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life, journalist Jonathan Alter traces the evolution of Carter's life – from being raised on a farm ...