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.
“The story usually goes about President Carter,” says his former Vice President, ” ‘Well, he’s a nice guy and a good person, a great ex-president, but he’s a failed president, who was never really able to rise to the challenges of his time.’ That’s the story we’ve been told, but it’s all wrong.”
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