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.
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.
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Hardback Editions
2002 : Leather Bound
| Title: CHRISTMAS IN PLAINS (Limited Signed Edition) Author(s): Jimmy Carter Publisher: Easton Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
November 2001 : Hardback
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October 2001 : Hardback
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October 2001 : Hardback
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2001 : Hardback
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January 1993 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
October 2004 : Paperback
| Title: Christmas in Plains: Memories Author(s): Professor Jimmy Carter ISBN: 0-7432-2715-8 / 978-0-7432-2715-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Scribner Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2001 : Mass Market Paperback
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Audio Editions
2001 : Audio CD
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2001 : Audio Cassette
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Other Editions
May 2006 : Unknown
| Title: Christmas in Plains: Memories Author(s): Jimmy Carter ISBN: 0-7435-6371-9 / 978-0-7435-6371-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster (a) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2001 : Unknown
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October 2001 : Kindle edition
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October 2001 : Kindle edition
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