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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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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.