An Hour Before Daylight: Memories Of A Rural Boyhood [abridged]

  • Author: Jimmy Carter
  • Narrator: Jimmy Carter
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 5:59:17
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Synopsis

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.

Chapters

  • c1sA Hour Before Daylight

    Duration: 47min
  • c1sB Hour Before Daylight

    Duration: 39min
  • c2sA Hour Before Daylight

    Duration: 46min
  • c2sB Hour Before Daylight

    Duration: 44min
  • c3sA Hour Before Daylight

    Duration: 49min
  • c3sB Hour Before Daylight

    Duration: 46min
  • c4sA Hour Before Daylight

    Duration: 44min
  • c4sB Hour Before Daylight

    Duration: 40min