Remembering Carter as we steel ourselves for Trump ... (Readers who want more detail should consult Nation editorial board member Kai Bird’s sympathetic biography The Outlier.) ...

“Carter’s decision was a mistake,” says Kai Bird, whose biography of Carter, “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter,” detailed the way Carter was pushed by his advisers ...

“He’s the engineer who became president,” said Kai Bird, author of a recent biography, “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.” “He valued expertise. He hired dozens ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: With some more on the life, legacy, and presidency of Jimmy Carter, with Pulitzer Prize winning author Kai Bird. You’ll remember him from his ...

Kai Bird is remembered for his Robert Oppenheimer biography, which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "Oppenheimer." The author's Jimmy Carter biography, "The Outlier," follows the late ...

Jimmy Carter was a genuine Washington outsider when ... s state funeral in Washington is full of ironies,” said Kai Bird, who titled his 2021 biography of Mr. Carter “The Outlier” for ...

biographer Kai Bird wrote in “Outlier, The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.” He told his mother then, “I’m going to walk among the people who voted for me.” Carter’s connection ...

We borrow from both in our analysis here. Jonathan Alter, “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life,” New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020. Kai Bird, “The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of ...

Of all the legacies of Jimmy Carter, his engagement with the Middle ... A prophet in the wilderness, his biographer Kai Bird called him. And prophets, Bird observed, are often unpopular.

In the renewable energy arena, Jimmy Carter is perhaps best known for having ... us who care about the climate today. The historian Kai Bird, for instance, notes that after struggling to pass ...

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 ...