Read the NEWS before it became HISTORY!

This is the July 26, 1976, issue of TIME magazine. Its cover features a photo of Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter, his wife Rosalyn, daughter Amy and vice presidential nominee Walter F. Mondale and his wife Joan. The headline is “The Democrats Reborn.”

On November 2, 1976, the Democratic ticket of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and Minnesota senator Walter Mondale narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent president Gerald Ford and Kansas senator Bob Dole. This was the first presidential election since 1932 in which the incumbent was defeated, as well as the only Democratic victory of the six presidential elections between 1968 and 1988 and the last time the Democratic ticket would win until 1992. Carter was the first non-incumbent politician representing a Southern state to be elected president since Zachary Taylor in 1848.

In the years after his presidency, Carter forged a deep relationship with Ford and the two were friends until Ford died in 2007. Carter died at age 100 on December 29, 2024.

Like other issues of TIME, this issue is filled with other articles and features (politics at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, a border war between Kenya and Uganda, Sol Hurok, John Travolta, etc.), black & white illustrations and photos and vintage black & white and color advertisements.

The magazine measures approximately 8.25 x 11 inches and contains 84 pages.