“An Hour Before Daylight”

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“An Hour Before Daylight” is a memoir by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter reflecting on his rural Georgia boyhood during the Great Depression and the people and experiences that shaped his early life.

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instanceOf book
memoir
author Jimmy Carter
authorBirthPlace Plains, Georgia, United States
surface form: Plains, Georgia
authorOccupation 39th President of the United States
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describes Carter family farm life
education in the rural South
family relationships
poverty in the Great Depression
race relations in the rural South
religion in rural Georgia
sharecroppers and tenant farmers
work on a peanut farm
followedBy Our Endangered Values
Sharing Good Times
genre autobiography
non-fiction
hasFormat audiobook
hasNotableAspect depiction of pre-civil-rights-era South
focus on Jimmy Carter’s childhood
reflection on values and character formation
hasTheme community and neighborliness
faith and religion
family and upbringing
memory and nostalgia
race and segregation
rural poverty
work ethic
intendedAudience general adult readership
language English
literaryCategory presidential memoir
mainSubject Southern United States
surface form: American South

Great Depression
surface form: Great Depression in the United States

Jimmy Carter
rural life in Georgia
mediaType hardcover
paperback
print
narrativePerspective first-person
publisher Simon & Schuster NERFINISHED
settingLocation Plains, Georgia, United States
surface form: Plains, Georgia

Sumter County, Georgia NERFINISHED
timePeriod 1930s
Great Depression
workInSeries Jimmy Carter autobiographical works

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