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There was Jimmy Carter the president, Jimmy Carter the Habitat home builder and now what you might call Jimmy Carter 3.0: international advocate for women\u2019s rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

As he nears 90 and the twilight of his public career, scholars are taking yet another look at Carter, a Baptist Sunday school teacher who continues to find ways to use his four years in the Oval Office as a springboard for his faith-fueled passions.<\/p>\n

In many ways, Carter appears to be seeking redemption for a presidency that is widely considered a failure, from the energy crisis to the Iranian hostages to his self-diagnosed \u201ccrisis of confidence\u201d that overshadowed America in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n

But ironically, the Nobel Peace Prize winner is now more free to pursue his global crusade than he ever was as president, says Randall Balmer<\/a>, author of the new biography, \u201cRedeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReligion always functions best at the margins of society and not in the councils of power, and I think Jimmy Carter\u2019s career illustrates that beautifully,\u201d said Balmer, chair of Dartmouth College\u2019s religion department and a noted scholar of American evangelicals.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have to worry about getting the approval from Congress on an initiative in Africa on river blindness. He\u2019s not tethered by political considerations any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s the age of Obama that has prompted a reassessment in some quarters of the ex-president with the wide toothy grin, when progressive Democrats like Carter and Lyndon Johnson are cast in a softer, more sympathetic light. Or maybe it\u2019s growing nostalgia for a distant era when politics seemed more decent, less dysfunctional. Or maybe it\u2019s because Carter just won\u2019t slow down, drawing praise for his humanitarian work even from his critics.<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, the former peanut farmer is getting a second look \u2014 and drawing his own share of headlines.<\/p>\n

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