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While I knew the Great Depression was severe and all encompassing, it never registered to me that sharecropping, a truly disheartening endeavor, prdocued less than a hundred dollars a year for an entire family. Although fortunate to grow up on a well-to-do farm, Carter's rise to high office is even more remarkable given his rural roots.
Whatever you thought of Carter as president he has become quite an author, and this book is as much eloquent as it is matter of fact. Carter describes honestly the understood racial segregation of the time, and his relationship with his father, Earl, which he describes as more professional than intimate.
Carter's childhood story is sad and inspiring. Sad because farming, a honorable way of life, is disappearing, and inspiring because Carter embodies that childhood myth that anyone can grow up to be president.