Jimmy Carter

An Hour Before Daylight (eBook, ePUB)

Memories Of A Rural Boyhood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743217255
• Artikelnr.: 49156822

Autorenporträt

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. He is 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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