title: Addresses of Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter), Governor of Georgia, 1971-1975
author: Jimmy Carter
description: Rare. Out of Print Book with limited number of copies.
zlib_text: I1ARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
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  THE MAN
  VICIDRBSKY
  AUTHOR OF
  J.F.K.: THE MANAND THE MYTH
  
  Jimmy
  Carfep
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  VICIORI^SKY
  Here, by the author of some of the most
  controversial books of our times,
  is a critical
  analysis of the extraordinary
  rise of James
  Earl Carter, Jr.—better known as "Jimmy"—
  to the Presidency of the United States. It is an
  analysis which confirms suspicions that the
  man who sermonized his way into the White
  House with those remarkable phrases—"I will
  never lie to you," "a government as good as its
  people," and "Why not the best?"—rarely
  practiced what he preached.
  For several years before Watergate Jimmy
  Carter presided over
  a gubernatorial cam-
  paign
  in Georgia that provided
  a startling
  preview of the kind of political excesses which
  later helped to destroy Richard Nixon. Yet, as
  Victor Lasky
  notes,
  Carter came
  to power
  largely because the nation was waiting for
  someone who was palpably not Richard Nixon,
  and Jimmy Carter insisted he was not. In fact,
  h