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. Author: Jimmy Carter Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: 07/13/2010 Pages: 240 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.48lbs Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d ISBN: 9781451612981 About the Author Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth President of the United States serving from 1977 to 1981. In 1982 he and his wife founded The Carter Center a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people around the world. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and was the author of thirty books including A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety; A Call to Action: Women Religion Violence and Power; An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood; and Our Endangered Values: America s Moral Crisis. He died in 2024 at the age of 100.