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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-101416562451
ISBN-139781416562450
eBay Product ID (ePID)62089908
Product Key Features
Book TitleRemarkable Mother
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs, Presidents & Heads of State
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorJimmy Carter
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-045914
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal973.926092 B
SynopsisPresident Carter's admiring homage to his mother reveals her redoubtable, generous, and forward-looking nature. The former president ascribes to her the inspiration for his own life's work of commitment and faith. 30 bw photographs throughout., A Remarkable Motheris 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 she happened to attend the first major league baseball game in which Jackie Robinson, from Cairo, Georgia, played), was a favored guest on television talk shows (usually able to "steal the microphone" from hosts such as Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite), and an important role model for the nation. Jimmy Carter's mother emerges from this portrait as redoubtable, generous, and forward-looking. He ascribes to her the inspiration for his own life's work of commitment and faith.