Jimmy Carter: An Hour Before Daylight

Cover: 9780743211994 | An Hour Before Daylight | Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood | Jimmy Carter

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Beschreibung

In this powerful memoir, former President and bestselling author Jimmy Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. He offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict segregationist who treated black workers with his own brand of 'separate' respect and fairness; and his strong-willed and well-read mother, a nurse who cared for all in need. He describes the five other people who shaped his early life, only two of them white; his eccentric relatives; and the boyhood friends with whom he worked the farm and hunted with slingshots and boomerangs, but who could not attend the same school. Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heart-breaking and complex. AN HOUR BEFORE DAYLIGHT is destined to stand with other timeless works of American literature.

Über den Autor

Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, and served as thirty-ninth president of the United States. After leaving the White House, he and his wife, Rosalynn, founded the Atlanta-based Carter Center, a nonprofit organisation that works to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health around the world. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

ONE Land, Farm, and Place

TWO Sharecropping as a Way of Life

THREE Hard Times, and Politics

FOUR My Life as a Young Pup

FIVE My Mama and Daddy

SIX Boiled Peanuts in Plains

SEVEN Breaking Ground, to Be a Man

EIGHT Learning More About Life

NINE Learning About Sin

TEN The Carters of Georgia

ELEVEN The Navy Versus Plains

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780743211994
ISBN-10:	0743211995
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Carter, Jimmy
Hersteller:	Simon & Schuster
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, vertrieb@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	234 x 154 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Jimmy Carter
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.09.2002
Gewicht:	0,399 kg