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...infinitely removed from the bloodletting." When it comes to the America he wants, Berrigan sidles into a vision of "Paradise Park"-a Utopia straight out of the pixiest moments of The Greening of America: "Let the people enter, grow, run, fly, perambulate, consume, pull corks from, spread jams and peanut butter on, swim and sun in, et cetera, as the day is long...
Straddling this varied state is Governor Jimmy Carter, a South Georgia peanut farmer who is both product and destroyer of the old myths. Soft-voiced, assured, looking eerily like John Kennedy from certain angles, Carter is a man as contradictory as Georgia itself, but determined to resolve some of the paradoxes...
...military career came to an abrupt end in 1953 with the death of his father; Carter came home to manage the family interests. The couple arrived just in time to preside over a peanut crop failure; the business netted $184 that first year. Slowly Carter began to build, stepping up his father's practice of buying local farmers' peanuts, then selling in bulk to the big processors. Today Carter Warehouse grosses $800,000 annually, and the Carter family owns, through various partnerships, 2,500 acres in Sumter and adjoining Webster County...
...rich St. Louis real estate developer, Vittert showed considerable ingenuity at earning money as an undergraduate. His profitable enterprises included a direct-mail campaign selling a campus "survival kit": Vittert sent letters to students' parents promoting a package of fruit, peanut butter and candy, which for $5 would be sent to their sons and daughters when they crammed for final exams. Vittert's drive for individuality also made him campus handball and pingpong champion-and a sartorial iconoclast: though he has his hair cut short and dresses in pin-stripe gray suits, he almost never wears socks...
...Southern states moved toward moderation on the race issue. Georgia replaced Lester Maddox with another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, a wealthy peanut farmer; South Carolinians chose Democratic Lieutenant Governor John West-a lawyer and, like Florida's Askew, a staunch Presbyterian-rather than Republican Representative Albert Watson, a racist with strong backing from Strom Thurmond and Spiro Agnew. Said one relieved voter: "South Carolina has moved from the Deep South to the upper South...