In the years immediately following his single term in the White House, Jimmy Carter was frequently cited as one of the country’s most ineffectual leaders. His presidency was dramatically blown off course by inflation, recession, a fractured administration and a humbling hostage crisis. But in the years since, Carter has fashioned his resurrection through almost superhuman effort, recasting himself as a giant of moral leadership. Jimmy Carter will track the ambitions of a boy his father called “hot shot” from his childhood in rural Georgia, through his turbulent years in the Oval Office to his post-presidential career as a world statesman.