An Hour Before Daylight: Large Print
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An Hour Before Daylight: Large Print   -     By: Jimmy Carter

An Hour Before Daylight: Large Print

Simon & Schuster / 2001 / Paperback

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In what is sure to become a classic, Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of the countryside and community. Along the way, he offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict segregationist who treated black workers with his own brand of "seperate" respect and fairness, and his strong-willed mother, a nurse who cared for all in need-regardless of their position in the community. Carter describes the people who shaped his early life, only two of them white: his eccentric relatives who sometimes caused the boy to examine his heritage with dismay; the boyhood friends with whom he hunted and worked the farm, but who could not attend the same school; and the eminent black bishop who refused to come to the Carters' back door but who would stand in the front yard discussing crops and politics with Jimmy's father. 461 pages by Simon & Schuster.

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Title: An Hour Before Daylight: Large Print
By: Jimmy Carter
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 592
Vendor: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 2001
Dimensions: 9.25 X 6.13 X 1 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 10 ounces
ISBN: 0743212207
ISBN-13: 9780743212205
Stock No: WW12207

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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.

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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 NinetyA 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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