Before he died on December 29th, Jimmy Carter was the earliest living previous president (he commemorated his 100th birthday this year) and there’s been a host of brand-new stories, books, and other media just recently produced about him.
One that has actually flown fairly under-the-radar is a brand-new book by Jim Barger entitled Jimmy Carter: Rivers and Dreams It information simply how crucial fly fishing was to the previous president, the individual connections it created, and the policy choices that Carter held thanks to his time on the water.
Carter fly fished all over from Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to Mongolia, and Rivers and Dreams gathers lots of stories from those experiences to paint a much better photo of who Jimmy was with a fishing pole in hand.
” No single activity in his life was more crucial to him than fly fishing as an individual pursuit,” Barger stated in a radio interview with WABE.
Part of the book’s description checks out, “Before, throughout, and after his presidency, Jimmy Carter’s pursuit of a much better world frequently included his ride-or-die friends fly fishing and feasting with world leaders– and in some wild situations– harmful totalitarians.”
You can see the book for sale here.
