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It’s the birthday of Jimmy Carter, (books by this author) born in Plains, Georgia (1924), the first American president to be born in a hospital. He grew up in a house where everyone brought a book to the dinner table, and then the family sat there together at dinner eating and reading in silence. He started selling boiled peanuts from a red wagon by the side of the road when he was six, around the same age that he started winning all sorts of prizes for being the top reader in his rural grade school.
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The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor for October 1, 2010 |
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