Monday, November 23, 2015

Radio Interview from the Chris Hahn Radio show

Based out of New York, the Chris Hahn Radio show is one of the leading Progressive news programs in the nation.
Here is a link to the interview which starts at minute 52

http://christopherhahn.com/


New Book Cover for Jimmy Carter in Plains The Presidential Hometown

The book is now available for Pre-Order on  Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books A million
Videos with images from the book are also on youtube 

Friday, November 20, 2015

Robert Buccellato Jimmy Carter In Plains Author Events


Robert Buccellato's Upcoming Events
Date City, State Venue Event

Feb 1, 2016
7:00 PM Atlanta, GA Jimmy Carter Presidential Library Robert Buccellato "Jimmy Carter in Plains, A Presidential Hometown" Lecture/Book Signing Monday, ...

Feb 2, 2016
10:25 AM Fremont, NE Back Porch Writer Author interview with Backporchwriter.com radio blog show

Feb 4, 2016
6:00 PM Ronkonkoma, NEW YORK Christoper Hahn Radio Show author book interview on new book Jimmy Carter in Plains

Feb 13, 2016
3:00 PM Americus, Georgia Bittersweet Author Book signing and presentation TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Feb 14, 2016
2:00 PM Plains, Georgia Jimmy Carter National Historic Site Book Presentation and Signing at the Plains High School

Lillian Carter A Compassionate life book Review

My book review of this great book by  Grant Hayter-Menzies

To call this book masterful would not be an overstatement. Grant Hayter – Menzies has done something near impossible, he has managed to remind a nation about one of its own neglected treasures. “Lillian Carter A compassionate life” starts off with a lovingly written foreword by Former President Jimmy Carter, the subject’s first born son. Many people reading this may instantly get images that this foreword in nothing more than a few quickly written sentences. This is not the case, and showcases President’s deep love for his deceased mother.

Menzies’ writing is nuanced and breezy. His visuals are compelling and revealing. The town of Plains and the backdrop of poverty stricken India are presented with haunting clarity. Lillian Carter is a detailed and fully formed human being in this biography and Menzies’ has managed to display the Carter family with all it’s great strengths and complexities. This was a literary experience that any fan of American History should undertake with great speed, an experience that I didn’t want to end.
-Robert Buccellato

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Jimmy Carter in Plains Book Endorsement by Kevin Mattson

I am very honored to present the book endorsement made by author Kevin Mattson, the author of several exceptional books including "What the heck are you up to Mr President" and "Just Plain Dick."

"This marvelous little book shines light on the truly populist campaign that landed Jimmy Carter in the White House.  You can actually SEE the authentic and regular-guy style of Jimmy Carter at work.  The images of Carter's small-town background are especially compelling.  Political and historical junkies will find this book a great piece of entertainment that doesn't discount the moral and visionary heft that Jimmy Carter brought to Washington, D.C."
-Kevin Mattson, Author of "What the heck are you up to Mr President."

Thursday, November 12, 2015

"Jimmy Carter in Plains, A Presidential Hometown" book signing

author Robert Buccellato will be signing books at the Jimmy Carter Presidential library
Lecture/Book Signing
Monday, February 1, 2016 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public

Jimmy Carter In Plains Book Endorsement by Grant Hayter Menzies

Endorsement for Jimmy Carter in Plains: The Presidential Hometown

Though it may sound as if I'm stating the obvious when I say I wrote Lillian Carter: A Compassionate Life after falling in love with President Jimmy Carter's mother and all she stood for, that is only partly true.  I also fell in love with Plains, Georgia, the little Sumter County town where her son would make history in 1976.

Miss Lillian herself loved Plains with a depth and breadth even she, no stranger to eloquence, was unable to fully define.  As I wrote in my book, Lillian loved not just "the straight-backed pines, the snowy dollops of cotton and the little russet hills of turned peanuts; the pink and purple sunsets and the way night falls impenetrably dark as dreamless sleep", but also something else: "a special, unique something which flows through Plains like a slow, silent southern river, a quiet music you can never hear if you're just passing through."  It was the place where she, who had traveled the world, would rather be, she said, than anywhere else in the world.  I, who have traveled the world, didn't understand this till I went there myself.

When I picked up Robert Buccatello's gloriously illustrated new book, Jimmy Carter in Plains: The Presidential Hometown, I fell in love with the town all over again.  Of course, the history of the Carter family permeates the place.  It's a history reaching back almost two centuries, encompassing land grants and plantations and slaves as well as President Carter's Depression-era childhood as soon of a woman who, in her words, refused to recognize a color line, whose compassionate care for black families in the area helped build the character and compassion of our 39th president and global humanitarian.  But Plains, as described above, has its own special, unique something.  And you have to be there to understand, and to fall in love with it yourself.

Plains has served as crucible for both past and future; and where the two have collided, the future tends to win.  Yet the best of the past remains: the charming simplicity, the neighborliness of a kinder, more trusting era, and that bracing air of compassion for the less fortunate--those hungering in spirit as much as in body--the afterglow of which Miss Lillian left behind and which Mr. Jimmy continues to tend for all who will partake.  There is a magic in Plains you will not only scarcely believe when you go there to experience it, but a magic you will wonder you took so long to embrace, and I would urge you to do so whenever you can.  Before you do, though, get yourself a copy of Robert Buccatello's book.  It is a moving map to the heart of the town that made Jimmy Carter.  It is also a map to a place that will win your heart for good, and for the goodness that is Jimmy Carter's Plains.

Grant Hayter-Menzies

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Jimmy Carter in Plains Book Endorsement - by Betty Pope

How do you capture a magical time in your life? This book of photographs and descriptions are evidence of Jimmy Carter's hometown and campaign for President of our USA.  Your book gives a true feeling of Plains, then and now.  People can experience the small town life and "down to earth" people who brought forth a awesome welcome to visitors then , now and forever.

I really enjoyed the revisit to the past!  Unforgettable.

- Betty Pope Founding member of the Carter Peanut Brigade

Jimmy Carter in Plains Book Endorsement - by Max J. Skidmore

Visual representations of politics in America are too often ephemeral,
taking the form of campaign literature that quickly vanishes, or news
reports that do not last beyond the headlines. Robert Buccellato, in what
obviously was a labor of love, has produced something different. His
presentation in pictures of the political life of President Carter before
and during his presidency should be welcomed by general readers who are
interested American presidents. Perhaps more important, these pictures
offer unique insights, making this book a contribution to American Studies
and to presidential history.

Max J. Skidmore
Author of After the White House: Former Presidents as Private Citizens