Drama
“He’s one of the three meanest men I’ve ever met. The other two are Sonny Barger and Muhammad Ali.”
-Hunter S. Thompson on Jimmy Carter
How did a brilliant engineer fail to grasp the workings of Washington power? How did a modest Christian become loathed by blue-collar Americans? Was he supremely unlucky in office, or wildly fortunate just to be there?
I had enough questions about Jimmy Carter that I wrote a limited series to find out the answers. Based on President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart Eizenstat, THE CARTER YEARS is THE WEST WING meets ALMOST FAMOUS: political drama with a Southern Rock twang.
You can read a few pages below.
