NEW YORK (AP) — No ex-president had a more prolific and diverse publishing career than Jimmy Carter. His more than two dozen books included nonfiction, poetry, fiction, religious meditations and a children’s story. His memoir “An Hour Before Daylight” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002, while his 2006 best-seller “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” stirred […]
President Joe Biden, President-Elect Donald Trump and more high-profile elected officials on Sunday paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, who died earlier in the day at age 100. Biden said the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” and that he lost a dear friend. He cited Carter’s compassion and moral clarity, his […]
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter holds up his Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, 2002, in Oslo, Norway. During his acceptance speech, Carter urged others to work for peace. Arne Knudsen | Getty Images News | Getty Images Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who became a U.S. president and a Nobel Prize-winning activist for peace […]
Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after […]
