Author and journalist Jonathan Alter wrote one of the definitive biographies of the 39th President, "His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life," he joins Cher Calvin and Courtney Friel to discuss the ...

Jonathan Alter is an MSNBC analyst and the author of “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.” In the final years of his life, the nation that once shunned and pitied Jimmy Carter began giving ...

I decided to call my book His Very Best because it reflects not just the title of Carter’s 1975 campaign autobiography (Why Not the Best?) but his intensity and his sense of obligation to God ...