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.

For a president to be mentioned in the same breath as Jimmy Carter is not considered a compliment. But that won’t be his legacy. Based on the remarkable body of

The little-known former Georgia governor tied for 12th in early polling, but he had the right plan to win the 1976 presidential primary.

Jimmy Carter has long been cast as one of America’s least-effective modern presidents—blamed for failing to tame inflation, solve the energy crisis, or free the American hostages in Tehran. His crushing reelection defeat in 1980 sealed the downbeat narrative.

These steps President Jimmy Carter took while in office are still shaping the United States more than four decades later. But they didn’t help him at the polls.

Jimmy Carter was widely perceived as a failure when he lost his bid for a second term in the White House in 1980 - but he became one of America's most beloved and respected elder statesmen.

Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Kai Bird, against all odds? As I said, you called your book "The Outlier." How was Jimmy Carter an outlier? KAI BIRD, Author, "The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter ...

The U.S. response to the threat was an "all of the above" energy approach that began under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford but was largely enacted by Carter. The moves set the stage for greater U.S. energy development, particularly in natural gas, and cut America’s crude oil imports in half between 1979 and 1983.

In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, biographer Kai Bird, author of 'The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter' discusses the late... Jimmy Carter was 'a very unusual kind of ...

Carter was in Anchorage in 2000 to celebrate the anniversary of his landmark conservation law, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The 1980 law left a historic mark on Alaska, by greatly expanding its national parks, refuges and other conservation system units.