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An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood

An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood


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In this powerful memoir, former President and bestselling author Jimmy Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. He offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict segregationist who treated black workers with his own brand of 'separate' respect and fairness; and his strong-willed and well-read mother, a nurse who cared for all in need. He describes the five other people who shaped his early life, only two of them white; his eccentric relatives; and the boyhood friends with whom he worked the farm and hunted with slingshots and boomerangs, but who could not attend the same school. Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heart-breaking and complex. AN HOUR BEFORE DAYLIGHT is destined to stand with other timeless works of American literature.

Table of Contents:
Contents ONE Land, Farm, and Place TWO Sharecropping as a Way of Life THREE Hard Times, and Politics FOUR My Life as a Young Pup FIVE My Mama and Daddy SIX Boiled Peanuts in Plains SEVEN Breaking Ground, to Be a Man EIGHT Learning More About Life NINE Learning About Sin TEN The Carters of Georgia ELEVEN The Navy Versus Plains ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX

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. 

Review :
"An American classic." "A love story of a man's passion for his home, his family, and...for his fellow man...Will stay in the mind long after the last page is read." "More than just an engaging memoir, this book is first-rate social history, a portrait of a subculture of America...a genetic road map of the making of a president." "Captivating." "A lovely and haunting piece of work...conveys with quiet passion...its author's love for the place in which he grew up and where, he says, he expects to rest for eternity."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780743211994
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 386 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0743211995
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jun 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood
  • Width: 156 mm


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