A Remarkable Mother | 
 enlarge | Author: Jimmy Carter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 35855
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416562451
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.926092
EAN: 9781416562450
ASIN: 1416562451
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Condition: There are some bent pages; the rest in great shape!
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Product 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 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.
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 Fast Shipment June 10, 2008
Very quick service. I got this book for my mom for Mother's Day and she loved it. I recommend it to anyone and use Amazon.
What a lovely book.... June 10, 2008
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was lovingly written by a son who adored, respected, and loved his mother very much. Lillian was such a force in the White House, and it sounds like everyone from every country who ever met her just loved being with her. She's was a woman that we could all learn from....she didn't take from anyone...even the President. The book was inspiring to me...she went into the Peace Corps at 70....enough said....very good book!
A Remarkable Mother June 4, 2008
This was a quick read, but well done. Mr. Carter's mother was definitely her own woman, but Mr. Carter treated her always with respect and love. A great tribute.
Great book June 2, 2008
Loved the book. It was an easy afternoon read. My husband and I took turns reading it to one another while sitting on the dock sipping cold beer. It is one of those days you hold in your heart. Laughed, cried and hated to see the end. Miss Lillian was some kind of woman!
Mom Loved this Mother Book May 31, 2008
I purchased this book for my 86-year-old mother for Mother's Day.
She said she enjoyed it very much and learned more about Mrs.
Carter than she knew.
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