An Hour before Daylight by Jimmy Carter audiobook

An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

By Jimmy Carter
Read by Jimmy Carter

Simon & Schuster Audio
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    ISBN: 9780743563703

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. 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.

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A New York Times bestseller

A 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Biography/Autobiography

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. 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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“More than just an engaging memoir, this book is first-rate social history, a portrait of a subculture of America…a genetic road map of the making of a president.”  —Baltimore Sun
“Carter’s recollections make abundantly clear the high principles that shaped not only his youth but his entire life.”  —Booklist
“Not since Abraham Lincoln have Americans become as familiar with another humble U.S. President raised in the heart of farm country as they are with Jimmy Carter…an inspirational story of a family pulling together during tough times while living with dignity and the resultant respect and goodness that propelled a young boy to become a kind and revered leader.”  —AudioFile
“Carter’s great strengths as a memoirist are his fairness in critiquing the past and his appreciation of what he gained from living in a closely-knit community…As he describes his family, his high school years, and a simpler way of life he vividly evokes a place that offered a priceless sense of belonging to something larger than self.”  —Kirkus Reviews

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Author Bio: Jimmy Carter

Author Bio: Jimmy Carter

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. He is the author of thirty books, including A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety; A 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.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 5.88
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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