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Readers like me will find the first part of the book surprisingly satisfying…and the second part of the book … Jimmy’s three sons were all grown by the time he became president in 1977, but his youngest child, Amy, spent part of her childhood in the White House. At the age of 95, Jimmy Carter is now the longest-living U.S. president in history. 1. Although Carter’s presidency constitutes the heart of the book, Alter spends 300 pages on his pre-presidential years, tracing the formation of Carter’s character and politics. Jimmy and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 92, have four children together, daughter Amy Carter and sons Jack, Donnel, and James Carter. The first 20% of the book is an excellent review of Carter’s pre-presidency while the remainder of the book (roughly seven-hundred pages) provides a detailed examination of his presidency. Carter was ranked the No. Jimmy Carter: 18th-worst Gerald Ford: 19th-worst Read more about George W. Bush and Richard Nixon , who previously ranked among the U.S. News 10 Worst Presidents. The survey also added a series of questions that asked scholars to say whether the presidents of the last fifty years – Richard Nixon (ranked 29th), Gerald Ford (27th), Jimmy Carter (26th), Reagan, George.H.W. His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life by Jonathan Alter (Simon & Schuster). Bush (21st), Bill Clinton (15th), G.W. Diary: Size matters; penis study shows U.S. Presidents hung like Clydesdales - Almost invariably, Presidents of the United States feature unusually large penises. 32 (out of 44) president in American history. Following his widely admired books about Democratic heroes Barack Obama and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, veteran-journalist-turned-biographer Alter challenges conventional wisdom with his robust biography of Carter, chronicling the evolution of the Georgia outsider who stumbled as a leader but became a warrior for … The Real Jimmy Carter is a shocker, showing why the peanut president should never have left his farm. He was the nation’s 39th president and served from 1977 to 1981, a period of “stagflation” and general unease in … James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, at the Wise Sanitarium (now the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center) in Plains, Georgia, a hospital where his mother was employed as a registered nurse.Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital. Jimmy Carter, Author Ballantine Books $12.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-345-42592-8. How Carter, the failed president, remade himself as Carter the humanitarian and freelance foreign policy critic of America How a Nobel official inadvertently revealed that Carter’s Nobel Prize was actually meant as a slap at America. President Richard Nixon, who had previously ranked among America's 10 worst presidents in previous iterations of the U.S. News rankings, was remembered more fondly by …