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The first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who became President of the United States and a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.Drawing on fresh archival material and five years of extensive access to Carter and his entire family, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of a complex man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Growing up with black playmates in one of the meanest counties in the Jim Crow South, Carter is the only American president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might as well have been in the 19th; he was connected - before, during, and after his presidency - to many of the major events and transformative social movements of the 20th; and his astonishingly active post-presidential life of service has inspired millions in the 21st.