"Billy Carter, a self-proclaimed beer-drinking good ol' boy, was forced to
redefine himself when big brother Jimmy Carter rocketed into the White House in
1977.
"Within a few years, Billy Carter put his name on a brand of beer that flopped,
got in hot water with remarks denounced as racist or anti-Semitic, accepted
money from Libya and was forced to sell some properties to pay a debt to the
Internal Revenue Service.
But underneath the mask of court jester was a perceptive man, an avid reader, a
fighter who refused to go down quietly under the pressures of alcoholism or
cancer."
