The Unluckiness of Jimmy Carter
President Jimmy Carter addressing a town meeting in Elk City, Oklahoma, in 1979. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
The 39th president, who died yesterday aged 100, was a good man dealt a bad hand.
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The conventional wisdom about Jimmy Carter, who died yesterday at the age of 100, is that he had a lousy presidency and a model post-presidency. There is some truth to that. During his four years in the White House, which began in 1977, inflation roared like it hadn’t in decades. In 1979, Iran took 53 American diplomats and citizens hostage—and when Car…
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