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presidential election.Ĭarter pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders. As a dark-horse candidate not well known outside of Georgia, Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination and narrowly defeated incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford in the 1976 U.S. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and then as governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. He then manifested his opposition to racial segregation, supported the growing civil rights movement, and became an activist within the Democratic Party. Afterward he returned home, where he revived his family's peanut-growing business. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the U.S. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.Ĭarter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia, graduated from the U.S. (born October 1, 1924) is an American retired politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. It’s an interesting look at a future president creating the narrative of his life, for a book which would go on to become a bestseller.James Earl Carter Jr. You write like an engineer on occasion.” Some of the more nuanced questions include references to Jimmy Carter’s father, James Earl Carter, and his style of discipline on his children. This set includes editorial suggestions for Governor Carter, with comments like: “Jimmy, this is fine, especially for an initial effort on one of these. An exceptional piece of presidential campaign history.

This set includes a signed first edition of Why Not The Best? signed by Jimmy Carter on the front free endpaper. Approximately 450 individual pages, most with notes and edits from Jimmy Carter. Housed in archival folder, acid free sleeves.

These three draft copies were delivered to Hal Gulliver at The Atlanta Constitution for his editorial suggestions and edits.

The autobiography was written entirely by Jimmy Carter, with the first draft housed at the Carter Library in Atlanta. Three separate draft copies of Why Not The Best? by Jimmy Carter, from the desk of his editor, Hal Gulliver of The Atlanta Constitution.Īll three drafts with copious notes by Jimmy Carter.