Chay carter biography books

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Not since Teddy Roosevelt can I recall a former president who has had such a consequential and purposeful retirement as Jimmy Carter.

And not since John Quincy Adams can I remember someone suffering a lackluster presidency only to find such significant redemption after leaving office.

TR spent most of his post-presidency hunting, exploring, agitating…and trying to win his way back into the White House.

Shortly after JQA lost his bid for a second presidential term he won a seat in Congress and spent the rest of his life fighting for causes he fervently supported.

National center for missing and exploited children

(He literally died in the Capitol!)

Carter, on the other hand, has spent his 37½ year (and counting) retirement traveling the world on a wide variety of charitable and humanitarian missions. He also teaches Sunday School at his local church in Plains, GA (yes, still).

And while history generally remembers his presidency with a long, exasperated sig