His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

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The downside of this conception was that he often rejected the oily give-and-take that lubricates a system of opposite and rival interests. It was centered in a belief that he had a duty as a Christian to help and serve his fellow men and women on this earth. Author Jonathan Alter didn’t go as far as some I’ve seen, such as one who suggested that the Civil War would have been avoided if Zachary Taylor had lived.

His lifetime mantra developed in high school as he learned that “we must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles,” a moral code that could produce success but also failures throughout his life.In winter, it was surprisingly cold, and the boy's most unpleasant childhood memories were of shivering all night, even under blankets. Casey, an American, woke up every day and through his efforts, tried to prolong the time fellow Americans spent in Iranian prisons as hostages. He’s been criticised for trying to find the good in dictators and these thugs that he’s met with over the years.

The blue-eyed, freckle-faced boy enjoyed a carefree idyll in the early 1930s that was little different than it would have been in the 1830s or 1730s or even – he liked to say – two thousand years ago, when Jesus Christ walked the earth. After 28 years as a columnist and senior editor at Newsweek, where he wrote more than 50 cover stories, Alter is now a columnist for the Daily Beast and the co-host, with his wife, Emily Lazar, and their three children, Charlotte Alter, Tommy Alter, and Molly Alter, of “Alter Family Politics,” which airs Thursdays at 10:00 a.The book was published in 2020, so there is no doubt who Alter had in mind, though he doesn’t mention any names.