John Edwards - New Book Today - On Letterman Friday

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Letter from Elizabeth:

Dear Friend,

Because I am really proud of what John has done in his new book, Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives, I want everyone to hear about the book and to read it. You'll get a chance to hear about it when John appears on The Late Show with David Letterman this Friday.

Home comes out in bookstores today, and all his proceeds from the sale of the book will be going to charity. He has already made a donation to Habitat for Humanity, which is helping to build new homes and new life stories for families in North Carolina and on the Gulf Coast. John got the idea for the book during his 2004 presidential campaign after he visited his first childhood home in Seneca, South Carolina. When the little wooden house was later featured in a TV ad for his campaign, people everywhere stopped him to share their powerful memories of home.

No matter where we lived -- or, in my case, how many times we moved -- home has the same place in almost everyone’s heart: a place where we wanted to be or where we felt most secure. It is where -- through good times and bad -- we grew the wings that allowed us to be the adults we are today. Just hearing the word "home" triggers memories of family stories, learning right from wrong, and building the confidence to someday step out into the larger world. And John's book captures this and captures too the varieties of ways we continue to carry our homes with us as adults in sixty personal essays and pictures of childhood homes. About half are from well-known people like Tommy Franks, John Glenn, Sugar Ray Leonard and Rick Warren. The other half are from less well-known people that we discovered right here in our online community.

We are so appreciative of what people have been willing to share. They made us laugh, as with the essay of Kathryn Cline, a health care worker from Youngstown, Ohio, who writes about how living in a cramped Sears Roebuck house with five sisters gave her an appreciation of the outdoors. They made us cry, as with the essay of Meredith Moon, who remembers most the house in Arlington in which she and her brothers and sister learned of her father's death during World War II when the chaplain came to their door with the news. They inspired us, as with the essay of Katherine Jefferson, an engineering manager who grew up on a tenant farm in Port Allen, Louisiana, who tells of the excitement and hard work of harvesting sugarcane with her ten brothers and sisters. Each story is a precious and personal slice of American life.

I hope you will take a moment to read an excerpt and watch John's appearance on David Letterman on Friday.

With warm wishes,

Elizabeth

Excerpt: http://oneamericacommittee.com/excerpt-home/