Potpourri, Selected Works of Jay Carter

About the Book

Potpourri includes adventure stories, poems, and sketches drawn from both real life and the author’s active imagination. Subjects range from growing-up events in childhood as grandson of a Prussian Cavalry Officer to the world of roadracing in the 1950’s and 1960’s, from the battlefield observations of a Navy corpsman serving as “Doc” with a squad of Marines fighting for Okinawa in 1945 to underworld adventures of the American Mafia. Characters reveal themselves as people you have known through their words and thoughts. Selections vividly detail the mindset, strategies, and techniques for winning in racing and in life.

About the Author

Jay Carter grew up in a big city’s German enclave, at constant war with the nearby Irish neighborhood. His boyhood training for these battles under the Prussian cavalry officer who was his grandfather schooled him in principles of honor and strategic and innovative thinking evidenced in his stories. After a World War II stint in the Navy he was consumed by a passion for sportscars and roadracing, another arena for strategic competition. While recovering from a shattered hip in 1962 he began to write from his own experiences, those of acquaintances, and his fertile imagination.