Jimmy Carter In Plains Book Cover

Here it is the cover to the new book on plains Georgia and its favorite son
Out this Christmas.
For many, the physical connections to our presidents have become unreachable; deeply rooted in the past and foreign to us. We can no longer see Washington’s birthplace or William Henry Harrison’s log cabin. Plains, Georgia is different, and the attachment Americans have for it remains truly unique. The book Jimmy Carter in Plains: A Presidential Hometown tells the inspirational story of how one man and his community transformed a nation.
When Jimmy Carter, a one term Governor of Georgia announced his candidacy for President, no one took him seriously. He was publicly nicknamed “Jimmy Who.” Yet, in just two years, he managed to pull off the most spectacular and unprecedented victory in American Political history, winning primary after primary thanks to his effective personal form of politicking and the support of his hometown. Many of his own neighbors campaigned for him in several states, and became the “Peanut Brigade.”
As Carter’s fame grew so did the crowds that started to flock into the tiny sleepy hamlet of Plains, Georgia, making celebrities out of the candidate’s mother, younger brother, and daughter. The exceptional photos of Charles W. Plant guide the reader along the historic moments of the 1976 bicentennial election that made Plains, Georgia America’s Hometown.

It was often proclaimed throughout the 1976 election that “The strength of one man can be measured by the path he takes to travel there.” In the life of our nation’s 39th president, all roads, no matter how elevated, seem connected to one small hamlet in Southern Georgia. No town has ever been so rooted in the life and success of a president.