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peteradamson 's review for:
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
by Jimmy Carter
I was born in 1971; Mr. Carter is the first president I remember being elected.
I grew up in conservative Iowa. My parents were the only people I knew who (would admit to) voting for him. My early elementary school years were spent listening to my classmates constantly tearing him apart, mostly just repeating things they heard their parents or the media say.
I wish all those same classmates could read this book and tell me what they think of him now. So much has happened in the world and politics since then that his time in the White House seems like it was 100 years ago. Technically, it *is* from another century.
Moreover, the generation President Carter hails from will likely be the last of what passes as Renaissance Men in the United States: a man who can as easily raise a family as be in the military as be a farmer as build houses with his own bare hands and have strong spiritual conviction(s) to guide him. In other words, men who could survive the zombie apocalypse. Certainly none of the presidents after him (save perhaps G.H.W.B.) can lay claim to this.
My father was a bit like this too--having ability and interest in so many different areas, most of which did not get passed on to me as I grew up in a world where I didn't *have* to learn those things (and sadly, I had no interest in learning them). All of that made me appreciative of my father and Mr. Carter, but it made me a little sad to know what my generation has lost.
I grew up in conservative Iowa. My parents were the only people I knew who (would admit to) voting for him. My early elementary school years were spent listening to my classmates constantly tearing him apart, mostly just repeating things they heard their parents or the media say.
I wish all those same classmates could read this book and tell me what they think of him now. So much has happened in the world and politics since then that his time in the White House seems like it was 100 years ago. Technically, it *is* from another century.
Moreover, the generation President Carter hails from will likely be the last of what passes as Renaissance Men in the United States: a man who can as easily raise a family as be in the military as be a farmer as build houses with his own bare hands and have strong spiritual conviction(s) to guide him. In other words, men who could survive the zombie apocalypse. Certainly none of the presidents after him (save perhaps G.H.W.B.) can lay claim to this.
My father was a bit like this too--having ability and interest in so many different areas, most of which did not get passed on to me as I grew up in a world where I didn't *have* to learn those things (and sadly, I had no interest in learning them). All of that made me appreciative of my father and Mr. Carter, but it made me a little sad to know what my generation has lost.