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How Jimmy Carter Changed Everything
The Outsider’s Guide to Winning: Lessons from Jimmy Carter
Describe America in one word? Jimmy Carter smiled and said “Searching.”
Searching for something new and better? Or the one? A leader with some celebrity spark?
Searching to understand the secret of Jimmy Carter? His December 29 death makes us reassess the ways he changed America.
We remember him as a loser — yet he showed far more (including all his successors) how they, too, could win the world’s biggest jobs.
The title of his first book made him sound a little like Donald Trump: The first of his 32 bestselling books was titled Why Not the Best? In the book, Carter declared:
I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former governor, a planner, a businessman, a nuclear physicist, a naval officer, a canoeist, and among other things a lover of Bob Dylan’s songs and Dylan Thomas’s poetry.”
One picture — and one map — reveal even more about Jimmy Carter
A map and a photo (below) offer some essential clues of exactly how much Jimmy Carter changed everything.