It says a lot about the campaign of Jimmy Carter that the only full-fledged biography of the candidate is one he wrote himself.
That curious datum tells us on the one hand that Carter was foresighted enough to sit down months ago and do this piece of necessary drudgery (it seems pretty clear on stylistic grounds that he is indeed the author) as part of his meticulous gameplan. It also tells us that his sudden ascent to fame caught publishers napping, just as it did the grandees and pontiffs of the Democratic Party.
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