The Search for Carter
Mailer's New York Times Magazine cover story on Jimmy Carter, written after traveling to Plains, Georgia to interview the presidential candidate.
“The Search for Carter,” Mailer’s cover essay-interview in the New York Times Magazine (26 September 1976), written after he traveled to Plains, Georgia, to interview the Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. Reprinted partially in The Time of Our Time (98.7) and complete in Mind of an Outlaw (13.1).