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Christmas in Plains : Memories by Jimmy Carter (2001, Hardcover)

In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood -- the simplicity of family and community gift-giving, his father's eggnog, the children's house decorations, the school Nativity pageant, the fireworks, Luke's story of the birth of Christ, and the poignancy of his black neighbors' poverty.Later, away at Annapolis, he always went home to Plains, and during his Navy years, when he and Rosalynn were raising their young family, they spent their Christmases together re-creating for their children the holiday festivities of their youth.Since the Carters returned home to Plains for good, they have always been there on Christmas Day, with only one exception in forty-eight years: In 1980, with Americans held hostage in Iran, Jimmy, Rosalynn, and Amy went by themselves to Camp David, where they felt lonely. Amy suggested that they invite the White House staff and their families to join them and to celebrate.Nowadays the Carters' large family is still together at Christmastime, offering each other the gifts and the lifelong rituals that mark this day for them.With the novelist's eye that enchanted readers of his memoirAn Hour Before Daylight,Jimmy Carter has written another American classic, in the tradition of Truman Capote'sA Christmas Memoryand Dylan Thomas'sA Child's Christmas in Wales.

Book Title
Christmas in Plains : Memories
Author
Jimmy Carter
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Presidents & Heads of State, Holidays / Christmas & Advent, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
160 Pages

Lc Classification Number
E873.2.C373 2001
Reviews
Richard PretoriusUnited Press InternationalA love story of a man's passion for his home, his family and...his fellow man....[It] will stay in the mind long after the last page is read., Jonathan YardleyThe Washington PostA lovely and haunting piece of work...that conveys with quiet passion...its author's love for the place in which he grew up and where, he says, he expects to rest for eternity., Nancy MitchellThe News & Observer(Raleigh)A true memoir, a book steeped in memory and organized in part by memory's principles: the vivid takes precedence....A moving reminder of how dramatically a child can grow beyond his roots and remain at the same time profoundly attached to them.
Table of Content
Partial table of contents:The Geography of Business Information: Developing a New Approach to IT and Corporate Restructuring.The Non-Technological Context of the Corporate Network.Corporate Reorganisation Through Information Technology: Developing a New Analytical Framework.Corporate Networks and the Spatial and Functional Reorganisation of Large Firms.Computerisation Between Firms and Changing Inter-Firm Relations.Conclusions and Future Research Agenda.Bibliography.Index.
Illustrated by
Carter, Amy
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
2001-039753
Dewey Decimal
394.2663/092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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