His Very Best Jimmy Carter, a Life

It's actually fascinating. It's called 'His Very Best'. Highly recommend it.

That came out last year that Biden really is Jimmy Carter except honestly worse in many respects

If anyone's interested, I read Jonathan Alter's biography of Jimmy Carter. It's actually fascinating. It's called 'His Very Best'. Highly recommend it.

And of course, that would apply to Jonathan, to Rosalynn Carter, would it not? She gave her very best at all times.

And I never heard a single word of criticism of Rosalynn Carter, who had a superior political intelligence to her husband, as he was the first to admit and also a grace that touched everyone she met.

Historians need to look at how they changed this country and the world. And by that standard, Rosalind Carter and Jimmy Carter stack up very well.

Jonathan is a contributing correspondent to NBC News and a former senior editor of Newsweek. He's written books on presidents including FDR and Obama, and in 2020 he published a biography of Carter called His Very Best, Jimmy Carter Alive.

And what I try to do in his very best is explain that his presidency is badly underrated, not that he belongs on Mount Rushmore or in the top rank of presidents, but it's badly underrated.

I devote a whole chapter to it in my book, because it starts out with him admitting his shortcomings.

And so I think it was just wrong of Kennedy to do that. He should have known that he was softening him up.

I think that his epitaph as president should reflect [that he was a political failure, but a substantive and farsighted success].

Jonathan Alter is an awardwinning documentarian and bestselling author of the biography titled His Very Best, Jimmy Carter, A Life.