Title | An Hour Before Daylight |
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Subtitle | Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood |
Author | Jimmy Carter |
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Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
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Publication Year | 2001 |
ISBN# | 0-7432-1199-5 |
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Pages | 284 |
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Language | en |
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Keywords | Biography & Autobiography; Historical; History; Presidents & Heads of State; United States |
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Comments | 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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Date Created | 2021-08-20 |
Date Modified | 2021-08-20 |