As America eulogizes Jimmy Carter, it is essential to reflect on a key component of his legacy that enabled him to succeed as a peacemaker in the Middle East: radical pragmatism rooted in humanity.

As Lawrence Wright nicely chronicles, Jimmy Carter faced a daunting task at Camp David in 1978. Carter, Menachem Begin, and Anwar el-Sadat each had much at stake. “Two things about my own life became ...

Early one morning in spring 1978, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s sharp-elbowed national security adviser, walked into the Oval Office to find the U.S. president pensively spinning a ...

When he was president in the late 1970s, Jimmy Carter endured a lot of criticism: The former peanut farmer with the big-toothed grin seemed ineffective. He couldn't get Congress to approve his plans.