Prophet of the post-presidency: how Jimmy Carter changed the world

Plains, Georgia, may seem an unlikely place from which to launch a global campaign of moral influence – but Carter did so

The Founders never planned for a post-Presidency. Or if they did, they thought of Cincinnatus returning to the plow, his civic duties done, as President Washington retired to Mount Vernon in 1797 when his term ended.

In Washington’s final illness, doctors applied leeches. Modern medicine –including the innovative and successful treatment for brain cancer that Jimmy Carter received in 2015 – has invented a post-Presidency, and the question is how to occupy it.

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