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Dan T. Carter will launch the 2024 slate of Food for Thought programs by discussing the double life of Asa Carter. Born in Anniston in 1925, Asa Carter was a political adviser to George Wallace during the 1962 gubernatorial campaign and was an author of Wallace’s first inauguration speech. Carter disappeared from Alabama in 1972 and assumed a new identity in Abilene, Texas, as a Cherokee American novelist. Using the name “Forrest" Carter, he published three successful Western novels, including The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, the basis of a widely acclaimed 1976 Clint Eastwood film. His last book, The Education of Little Tree, became a posthumous bestseller.
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