| The late President’s priorities were remarkably prescient, and his personal qualities offered a dismaying contrast to so much of the present state of American politics.  Photograph by Matt McClain / The Washington Post / Getty Jimmy Carter died yesterday at age one hundred. In 2011, Lawrence Wright spent time with the Carters at their home in Georgia while researching his play “Camp David,” which follows Carter’s dream of bringing peace to the Middle East. As President, “Carter promoted an overtly Christian agenda,” Wright writes, “working to overcome poverty and disease, make the tax code fairer, reduce the prison population, and promote human rights around the world.” His political and personal priorities seemed, to Wright, to offer a stark contrast to modern American politics. Wright’s play, which premièred in 2014, also tells another story: that of the relationship between Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. “They never paused in their service,” Wright observed. “Their entire life together was marked by high aspiration and noble effort.” | 
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