STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Former President Jimmy Carter has lived long enough to receive another award. To his Nobel Peace Prize, he can now add an honor for writing.

STEVE INSKEEP, host: Jimmy Carter says he is a conservative Christian who couldn't disagree more with conservative religious leaders. The former president's new book dwells on the line between ...

Steve Inskeep: Why was [Jimmy Carter] an outlier, as you called him? Kai Bird: He was an outlier in all sorts of ways. He grew up in south Georgia playing as a child with African-Americans.

Steve Inskeep: Why was [Jimmy Carter] an outlier, as you called him? Kai Bird: He was an outlier in all sorts of ways. He grew up in south Georgia playing as a child with African-Americans.

Jimmy Carter faced many challenges during his four years as president: Soaring energy prices, high inflation and foreign unrest — including the Iran hostage crisis. Sponsor Message STEVE INSKEEP ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Kai Bird about his biography of President Jimmy Carter: The Outlier. Bird's book takes a close look at the four years Carter was in office.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a childhood memory of the late Jimmy Carter's presidency. Carter was elected in 1976, when his grandson, Jason Carter, was 1 year old.

Steve Inskeep, Destinee Adams Dec. 30, 2024 Listen 6 min MORE President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife Rosalynn and their daughter Amy along Pennsylvania Avenue from the ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Jimmy Carter, who died yesterday, delivered his inaugural address on a January day in 1977. It is a glimpse of that moment in history.

In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, biographer Kai Bird, author of 'The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter' discusses the late president's successes and failures.