Hour Before Daylight

Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood

AvJimmy Carter

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-06-17
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Simon & Schuster
ISBN:9780743211994

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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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"An American classic."

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ContentsONE Land, Farm, and PlaceTWO Sharecropping as a Way of LifeTHREE Hard Times, and PoliticsFOUR My Life as a Young PupFIVE My Mama and DaddySIX Boiled Peanuts in PlainsSEVEN Breaking Ground, to Be a ManEIGHT Learning More About LifeNINE Learning About SinTEN The Carters of GeorgiaELEVEN The Navy Versus PlainsACKNOWLEDGMENTSINDEX