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An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood Paperback - 2001

by Jimmy Carter

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Born on October 1, 1924, Jimmy Carter grew up on a Georgia farm during the Great Depression. In "An Hour Before Daylight", the former president tells the story of his rural boyhood and paints a sensitive portrait of America before the civil rights movement. 37 photos.

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"An American classic." --The New Yorker In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three of whom were black. Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex. In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation and recounts a classic, American story of enduring importance.

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  • Title An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood
  • Author Jimmy Carter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.s.a.
  • Publication date 2001-10-16
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9780743211994 / 0743211995
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.08 x 0.78 in (23.37 x 15.44 x 1.98 cm)
  • Reading level 1360
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Georgia
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, Carter family
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00048248
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. In 1982, he and his wife founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people around the world. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, and was the author of thirty books, including A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety; A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power; An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood; and Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. He died in 2024 at the age of 100.
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