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The following is from the introduction to LIFE’s special tribute issue, Jimmy Carter: A Noble Life, which is available online and at newsstands.

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The LIFE store features a curated collection of more than 600 photos, with many of the best-selling images coming from the worlds of movies, music and sports. Many of the most popular …

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Here are a few selections from LIFE’s new special issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures Ever and the Stories Behind Them

See photographs and read stories about global icons - the actors, athletes, politicians, and community members that make our world come to life.

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LIFE’s 1957 story about Camus carried the headline “Action-Packed Intellectual” and began with the note that he “jealously guards his privacy.” But the author relented enough to allow LIFE …

But by that time she had been competing in the sport for decades, and she had been around horse tracks from the beginning of her life—quite literally. Burright was born on the infield of a …