num_pages: 464
description: “An American classic.” — The New YorkerIn 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.
language: English
title: An Hour Before Daylight: Memories Of A Rural Boyhood
titlecomplete: An Hour Before Daylight: Memories Of A Rural Boyhood
genres: Biography, Presidents, History, Autobiography, Politics, American History, Southern, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 2790
publisher: Simon & Schuster