Jimmy Carter, the Man & the Myth by Victor Lasky 1979 hdcvr

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ISBN: 9780399900426 Book Title: Jimmy Carter : the Man and the Myth Number of Pages: 419 Pages Topic: Presidents & Heads of State Genre: Biography & Autobiography Author: Victor Lasky Language: English Format: Other Publication Year: 1979 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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Jimmy Carter, the Man & the Myth by Victor Lasky 1979 hdcvr. shelf wear A longtime conservative columnist, Victor Lasky got his start in journalism in 1940 as a copy boy for The New York Journal-American . During the Second World War, Lasky worked as a correspondent for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes covering the war in Europe. After the war, he joined the staff of The New York World-Telegram , where he assisted Frederick Woltman with his Pulitzer Prize-winning articles on Communist infiltration and co-wrote a book on Alger Hiss's trial with Ralph de Toledano. During the 1950s Lasky worked as a screenwriter, and from 1956 to 1960 he was in charge of public relations for Radio Liberty. In 1962 he began writing a syndicated newspaper column, ''Say It Straight,'' for the North American Newspaper Alliance, which ran for the next two decades, as well as a series of controversial books about contemporary politicians. Story of carter in the first 2 yrs of presidency