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"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.
Contents
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
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