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100 1  Godbold, E. Stanly,|cJr.,|d1942- 
245 10 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter :|bthe Georgia years, 1924-1974 
       /|cE. Stanly Godbold, Jr. 
264  1 Oxford, [U.K.] ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press,
       |c2010. 
300    x, 355 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: The Carters and the Smiths -- A Boy in 
       Archery -- A Girl in Plains -- School Years -- Annapolis -
       - Navy couple -- The Shadow of Mr. Earl -- The emergence 
       of Rosalynn -- First campaign -- Politics and business -- 
       Reach for the Governorship, 1966 -- Born again, running 
       again -- A conservative progressive -- "A trace of 
       demagoguery" -- "Enigma and contradiction" -- Georgians at
       home -- The Trail of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Rosalynn 
       in power -- Phoenix rising -- Georgians abroad -- Jimmy, 
       God, and fortune. 
520    "This dual biography of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the 
       thirty-ninth President of the United States and his wife, 
       chronicles the unique political and business relationship 
       of a couple who together rose from obscurity to national 
       and international power.  His life in an isolated, 
       prosperous, locally powerful,  Baptist farm family 
       prepared him for a career in public service and business. 
       Rosalynn came from a more modest, but well-connected and 
       intelligent, Methodist  family in the town of Plains. Each
       was the oldest of four children, ambitious, eager to learn,
       able to shoulder heavy responsibilities,  and committed to
       humanitarian interests.  Together, they compromised their 
       religious and career differences, enjoyed a short career 
       in the United States Navy, built a small agribusiness 
       empire, plotted political strategy, won the governorship 
       of Georgia in 1970, and announced his candidacy for 
       President of the United States on December 12, 1974.   
       This volume, which covers the years from his birth to the 
       end of his governorship, offers substantial, detailed 
       information about their childhoods, marriage, personal 
       lives, Navy career, business success and entry into 
       politics.  In a racially-charged atmosphere, Carter won a 
       contested state senate seat in 1962 but   lost the 
       governor's race to Lester Maddox in 1966.  In 1970  he won
       a stunning victory over the old Georgia politics, 
       revealing that  Rosalynn was so emotionally and 
       professionally close to her husband that his career often 
       seemed inseparable from hers.  Carter shocked the state of
       Georgia and the entire country with his statement in 1971 
       that the time for racial discrimination was over, thus 
       launching a national political race.  Godbold's research 
       has spanned two decades, much of it in rarely seen 
       documents in the Georgia Department of Archives and 
       History and the better-known Jimmy Carter Presidential 
       Library, both in Atlanta.  Working from millions of pages 
       of primary sources, he has added contemporary scholarship,
       oral histories, and   new interviews.   From academic and 
       military records, the governor's correspondence, the 
       memories of the Carters,  the accounts of Georgia and 
       national politicians, and public documents, this volume 
       details  how the Carters rose to power, managed their 
       private and public lives, governed Georgia, and seized 
       control of the national Democratic party.  It is a 
       blueprint for what they would do on the national and 
       international stages after 1975.  The cast of characters 
       ranging from Jimmy, Rosalynn, Miss Allie Smith, Mr. Earl, 
       Miss Lillian, Brother Billy, Rachel Clark, Admiral 
       Rickover, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Richard Nixon, 
       Baby Amy, Charles Kirbo, Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell, and
       many more is set in a true Faulknerian tale that has 
       changed the image of the South in the national mind and 
       the role of the South in the presidency.  The Carters were
       ordinary people whose dramatic and colorful story 
       resonates with human life, defeat, courage, inspiration, 
       hope, and extraordinary accomplishments"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Carter, Jimmy,|d1924- 
600 10 Carter, Rosalynn. 
650  0 Governors|zGeorgia|vBiography. 
650  0 Governors' spouses|zGeorgia|vBiography. 
651  0 Georgia|xPolitics and government|y1951- 
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