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Jimmy Carter
"Captivating."Jesse Birnbaum,Time
"A lovely and haunting piece of work...conveys with quiet passion ...its author's love for the place in which he grew up and where, he says, he expects to rest for eternity."Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength re-creates 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.