Jimmy Carter An Hour before Daylight recensie, review en informatie boek en memoir van de Amerikaanse president die op 29 december 2024, 100 jaar oud, overleed. In 2001 verscheen het boek met de politieke memoires van Jimmy Carter die de president van was van de 39e President van de Verenigde Staten was van 1977 tot 1981. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is op dit moment niet verkrijgbaar.
Jimmy Carter An Hour before Daylight recensie, review en informatie
- “A lovely and haunting piece of work…conveys with quiet passion…its author’s love for the place in which he grew up and where, he says, he expects to rest for eternity.” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post)
- “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.” (Ray Jenkins, Baltimore Sun)
- “An American classic.” (The New Yorker)
An Hour before Daylight
Memories of a Rural Boyhood
- Auteur: Jimmy Carter (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: memoir
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
- Verschenen: 2001
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 17,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst het boek met jeugdherinneringen van Jimmy Carter
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.
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.
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