Carter often followed his instincts and did what he believed was right, according to Kai Bird, biographer and author of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. "He was always the ...

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 ...

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": Well ...

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 ...

And it’s because of a lot of hard work by people who, in a surprising number of cases, were inspired by Jimmy Carter. Kai Bird: I would agree with that. Human rights was a major achievement by ...

“He was well aware of the political cost,” says Carter biographer Kai Bird, author of “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.” When it came to taking on tough ...

This special, "Jimmy Carter: A Life," features Joe Donahue's archival interviews with President Carter, Walter Mondale, historians Kai Bird and Jonathan Alter, and more.

Kennedy and Ronald Reagan pop up regularly on bookstore shelves, Jimmy Carter for a long time generated ... books on his life and times. Kai Bird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, argues ...

The death at 100 of the US’s 39th and longest living president, James Earl Carter, a peanut farmer ... to use power righteously,” biographer Kai Bird would write, “ignore politics, and ...