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Jimmy Carter, Amy Carter (illustrator) "Christmas in Plains: Memories."
This slim yet deeply textured memoir detailing former president Carter's Christmases as a boy in rural Georgia, as a naval officer, a politician and US president serves as an excellent companion to his earlier, bestselling memoir, An Hour Before Daylight, but can also be read on its own as a tribute to family and a reminder that economy of gifts doesn't have to mean economy of generosity.
Told in clear, honest language, these engaging vignettes range from endearing stories from his boyhood using the tinfoil from his father's cigarette packs to make tinsel for the tree as well as revealing ones Carter's thoughts and feelings during the hostage crisis in the Middle East toward the end of his presidency.
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 memoir "An Hour Before Daylight", Jimmy Carter has written another American classic, in the tradition of Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" and Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales."
Hardcover. 2001.
New book. Book in excellent visual and technical condition.

Stan Nowy
Gatunek Proza
Język publikacji angielski
Tytuł Christmas in Plains: Memories
Nośnik książka papierowa
Autor Jimmy Carter, Amy Carter - illustrator
Okładka twarda z obwolutą
Rok wydania 2001
Wydanie Standardowe
Waga produktu z opakowaniem jednostkowym 0.5 kg
Wydawnictwo Simon & Schuster
Liczba stron 160
Numer wydania 1
Szerokość produktu 14 cm
Wysokość produktu 21 cm
ISBN 0743224914
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Oferta: 59f54e4c-be22-48a3-9f2f-2d3bee286124

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