Jimmy Carter has always been proud of his breadth of achievement: nuclear engineer, farmer, U.S. President, humanitarian and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Now, with The Hornet's Nest, his novel about the Revolutionary War, he has turned to fiction. The reviews were gently tough, but speaking with TIME's Massimo Calabresi, Carter showed that, as always, he's ready for a fight.
WHY WRITE A NOVEL AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE YOU'VE TACKLED? I wanted to tell a kind of ignored story about the most important war in which America's ever been involved. And I wanted to do it in a highly personal way so...
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