false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165949219m/9347.jpg 9347 9 Born on October 1, 1924, Jimmy Carter grew up on a Georgia farm during the Great Depression. In <I>An Hour Before Daylight</I>, the former president tells the story of his rural boyhood, and paints a sensitive portrait of America before the civil rights movement.<p> Carter describes--in glorious, if sometimes gory, detail--growing up on a farm where everything was done by either hand or mule: plowing fields, "mopping" cotton to kill pests, cutting sugar cane, shaking peanuts, or processing pork. He also describes the joys of walking barefoot ("this habit alone helped to create a sense of intimacy with the earth"), taking naps with his father on the porch after lunch, and hunting with slingshots and boomerangs with his playmates--all of whom were black. Carter was in constant contact with his black neighbors; he worked alongside them, ate in their homes, and often spent the night in the home of Rachel and Jack Clark, "on a pallet on the floor stuffed with corn shucks," when his parents were away. However, this intimacy was possible only on the farm. When young Jimmy and his best friend, A.D. Davis, went to town to see a movie, they waited for the train together, paid their 15 cents, and then separated into "white" and "colored" compartments. Once in Americus, they walked to the theater together, but separated again, with Jimmy buying a seat on the main floor or first balcony at the front door, and A.D. going around to the back door to buy his seat up in the upper balcony. After the movie, they returned home on another segregated train. "I don't remember ever questioning the mandatory racial separation, which we accepted like breathing or waking up in Archery every morning."<p> In this warm, almost sepia-toned narrative, Carter describes his relationships with his parents and with the five people--only two of whom were white--who most affected his early life. Best of all, however, Carter presents his sweetly nostalgic recollections of a lost America. <I>--Sunny Delaney</I> 3140885 16 10 2001 An Hour Before Daylight : Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood total:358|5:68|4:148|3:118|2:20|1:4| 358 1330 469 48 5 1 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 14 17:22:09 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 06 15:02:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Apr 19 19:50:58 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 20:05:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 18 19:04:43 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 19:12:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 10 08:55:19 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 14:51:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon May 05 21:30:13 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 21:32:01 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 12:42:20 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 12:50:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 12:04:31 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 12:12:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 21:09:02 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 21:11:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 20:06:27 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 20:09:23 -0700 2009 I can't believe how hard these people worked a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 15:02:24 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 15:04:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 11:05:30 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 19:28:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 17:40:44 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 04:36:47 -0700 2009
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