Grrrreat GIFT IDEAS!
PetPix PORTAL
Pawsitive FEEDBACK!
Gift CERTIFICATES?
|
by: Jimmy Carter  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $21.86 You Save: $8.09 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 973.926092 EAN: 9780743571043 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 0743571045 Label: Simon & Schuster Audio Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio Number Of Items: 5 Publication Date: April 01, 2008 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter was a registered nurse, physicians' assistant, pecan grower, university housemother, nursing home manager, Peace Corps Volunteer, and renowned public speaker and raconteur. She ignored the restrictive mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression years, and was an avid lifelong supporter of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers because she happened to attend the first major league baseball game in which Jackie Robinson, from Cairo, Georgia, ever played. "Miz Lillie" was a favored guest on television talk shows, including those of Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite, usually able to "steal the microphone" from her hosts. Carter writes: "My mother was often gone from home when I was a boy, serving as a nurse on private duty in her patients' homes. She was supposed to receive six dollars for her twenty hours of service, but knew in advance that most of her families would never be able to pay. Since she came home around midnight to bathe and change into a fresh uniform, we children would sometimes miss seeing her for more than a week at a time. She would not forget, however, to leave written instructions on the front room table that prescribed our multiple chores." President Carter loved his parents deeply and he particularly ascribes to his mother, the inspiration for his life's work. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fast ShipmentVery 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. Rating: - What a lovely book....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! Rating: - A Remarkable MotherThis 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. Rating: - Great bookLoved 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! Rating: - Mom Loved this Mother BookI 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. 
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
