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Former president Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old. In today’s episode, two books examine Carter’s career in the White House and beyond. First, NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Kai Bird about The Outlier, a biography that argues that Carter’s deregulation of several industries, his social legislation and his foreign policy made his one-term presidency exceptionally productive. Then, a conversation from the vault between NPR’s Eric Westervelt and Carter himself about his memoir, A Full Life.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR’s book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookoftheday