An introduction to President Jimmy Carter

My first lesson in political polarization came when I was in second grade. The assignment was to find out who the president was when we were born. These were the days before Google and none of my friends had the answer, so I turned to the only people in my life old enough to know.

It was Jimmy Carter, Dad told me – and by the way, he was a total failure. But Mom chafed at that. Jimmy Carter was a good man, she told me. He believed in peace....