An Hour Before Daylight
Memories of a Rural Boyhood
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2001]
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 460 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
"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.
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.
Subjects:
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- -- Childhood and youth.
Carter family.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Farmers -- Georgia -- Plains -- Biography.
Country life -- Georgia -- Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Plains (Ga.) -- Biography.
Plains (Ga.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Plains Region (Ga.) -- Rural conditions -- 20th century.
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- -- Childhood and youth.
Carter family.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Farmers -- Georgia -- Plains -- Biography.
Country life -- Georgia -- Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Plains (Ga.) -- Biography.
Plains (Ga.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Plains Region (Ga.) -- Rural conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN:
0743212207 (large print)
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LP BIOGRAPHY Carter, Jimmy | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Biography | In |