'Carterland' puts a positive spin on an oft-disparaged presidency
Carterland depicts the one-term presidency of Jimmy Carter as an expansive and largely successful exercise in problem-solving.
We're told that politics is different than in decades past — more ideological, less productive. Offering fresh evidence for that notion is the documentary Carterland, which depicts the often disparaged one-term presidency of Jimmy Carter as an expansive and largely successful exercise in problem-solving.
The measured tones of the late Walter Mondale, Carter's running mate in 1976, lay out Carterland's operating premise right at the start.
