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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer, public speaker, and renowned raconteur, Miss Lillian ignored the mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression years. She was an avid supporter of the Brooklyn Dodgers (because...
Author
Language
English
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Description
President Jimmy Carter has become an acclaimed, best-selling author since his days in the White House. In An Hour Before Daylight, he offers poignant remembrances of his childhood days in Depression-era rural Georgia. With eloquent yet conversational prose, Carter recalls the events and people who shaped his life from his earliest days. He describes the sharecropping economy of the 1930s, where hard farm labor was done by hand and those who worked...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The former president offers an account of growing up on a Georgia farm during the Depression and provides profiles of the people who shaped his life, including his segrationist farmer father and strong-willed nurse mother.
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