An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs Of A Rural Boyhood; Author: Carter, Jimmy; Paperback

Author: Carter, Jimmy
Paperback; 16pp Photographs
284 pages
Published: June 2002
Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)
ISBN: 0743211995

Born on October 1, 1924, Jimmy Carter grew up on a Georgia farm during the Great Depression. In An Hour Before Daylight, the former president tells the story of his rural boyhood and paints a sensitive portrait of America before the civil rights movement. 37 photos.In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country. In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country.This autobiography of President Jimmy Carter recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm and the countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. He offers portraits of his parents, others who shared his early life - only two of them white - his eccentric relatives, and his friends.