GWM book review: A Jimmy Carter memoir

“I can only say with a degree of confidence that what won the election for Jimmy Carter were the more than 600,000 hands he and Rosalyn shook.” So says Dorothy “Dot” Padgett, author of a new history/memoir, Jimmy Carter: Elected President with Pocket Change and Peanuts.

GWM interview with ‘Peanut Brigade’ author

The news world is heating up for another hotly contested presidential race. However, few elections for the U.S. presidency were more unique than the one involving a peanut farmer from Plains who beat the incumbent officeholder.