Covering a President's Turning Point: A Study of the Newspaper Coverage in the Carter-Moore State Senate Election, 1962

By J. Brice Odom

Jimmy Carter had a meteoric rise from peanut farmer to the Presidency. It began with an election to the Georgia State Senate that was nearly stolen from him by election fraud in Quitman County. The newspapers of the region scrambled to cover the events as their bias saw fit and the divisions between urban and rural Georgia became more apparent as the scandal lengthened. Here is a study of those newspapers through this early and pivotal event in the career of the 39th President of the United States.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1657781070
• ISBN13: 9781657781078
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"