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A Remarkable Mother | 
| Author: Jimmy Carter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 195
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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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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 HE DOES IT AGAIN! May 13, 2008
He Does It Again!, May 13, 2008
By P. Brogley "brogs68" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
The former President has done it again - written an informative and inspiring book. He gives us great understanding of the mother who helped make him the best he could be.
She was successful in that he is the best and most influential former President we have. This book is a gem. Read it this weekend.
Author of Mr. NewHeart (New Heart): Heart Attack to Transplant and Beyond
You may preview my next book if you Google "david hollar the face of war," the story of my year in Vietnam as an infantry officer including six months as a platoon leader with the Big Red One.
"Sensitive and Caring!" May 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I highly encourage all to read this book. If nothing else, to gain more insight into some remarakble people, and to gain more love, compassion, and sensitivity towards this very special person in many of our lives, our mother.One Man's Love Story - A Near-Death Experience
A remarkable Mother by a Remarkable Man April 30, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Jimmy Carter has penned an insightful and inspiring book that chronicles the amazing life of Miss Lillian Carter- Peace Corp volunteer at the age of 70, registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, early civil rights advocate, and enthusiastic Brooklyn Dodgers fan. "A Remarkable Mother" is an engaging, uplifting read that makes for a terrific Mother's Day gift regardless of the recipient's political persuasion.
Understated Title April 29, 2008
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
Anyone who doesn't remember the Carter Presidency will meet in this book a truly extraordinary woman, as salty and outspoken as she was generous, good-hearted and commonsensical--perhaps the only President's mother in recent times (at least prior to the current occupant of the Oval Office) to make a noteworthy impression in public consciousness. For those who do remember her, Jimmy's fond (but not overly or needlessly sentimental) portrait will help clarify the origins of the qualities that were manifest on the surface. Rather than being a clinging or protective parent she was a "do-er," someone who taught by example. In many respects, she bears no small resemblance to the strong Southern black women with whom she had an affinity--a character with the integrity and resilience of Dilsey in Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury."
The entire Carter family--Miss Lillian, Ruth, and Billy--were utterly unique individuals, and little has been written about the personal grief that Jimmy must have endured upon the passing of his mother and both siblings, even as he continued to direct his attention toward humanitarian causes that would benefit a wider human family. Unfortunately, there is no Brother's or Sister's Day, but some of us hope the enviable energies of the former President do not fail him before he has had a chance to do at least equal justice by these two remaining members of a First Family that, however dissimilar in background and social status, attracted a level of interest not seen since the Kennedy era.
 Most dull book ever!!! April 25, 2008
5 out of 24 found this review helpful
I read about one book a week. This book must have been the worst book I have ever read in my life. I loved Jimmy's stuff in the past. What happened?? I'm not sure he even wrote this book. Very slow and pointless content.
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