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Lillian Carter

A Compassionate Life

By (author) Grant Hayter-Menzies
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson, NC, United States
Published: 30th Dec 2014
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 18mm
Weight: 328g
ISBN-10: 078649719X
ISBN-13: 9780786497195
Barcode No: 9780786497195
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Synopsis
Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his family, this books provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of the woman who - as nurse, mother and social justice activist in segregated southwest Georgia - made a lifelong habit of breaking the rules defining a woman's place in and out of the home and the status of blacks in society. As the only white nurse in her rural community who cared for black families, as a 68-year old Peace Corps Volunteer in India, as a fearless supporter of civil rights and as a First Mother unlike any other, Lillian Carter showed how individual courage, conviction and compassion can make a difference. Drawing on interviews with friends and colleagues, members of the Plains, Georgia, black community, Peace Corps Volunteers who trained with her, White House insiders and key players in the civil rights movement, as well as letters, documents and photographs never before made public, this book captures the essence of the woman the press dubbed "Rose Kennedy without the hair dye" and "First Mother of the world".

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