Jimmy Carter recounts his boyhood growing up on a Georgia farm.

The only reason I picked it up was because it fit a book challenge I'm working through this year, and I'm really glad it prompted me to read this. Carter grew up in Archery and Plains, Georgia, working on the farm with his dad and alongside black sharecropping families. The style is somewhat meandering and conversational, but I went along for the ride and especially appreciated his reflection on segregation and his experiences and influences as a child. An enjoyable memoir from the 39th president of the United States. ( )

This wasn't bad, but I had a hard time understanding why it was an acclaimed memoir. What I consider a meaningful memoir is one that draws on universal truths that we all experience, things that are more than just surface level events. There was a little bit of this, but not very much. ( )

What I discovered about this book is it has less about politics and more about the time and place he grew up. I found it quite interesting to read a young boys take on the black-white relationships in the south when he was a boy. It was quite interesting to see how and why he became the man he did, whether or not you agree with him and his actions. Overall, this was a very good book and I really enjoyed it. So many times, I forgot that I was reading about a future president of our country. He has a good heart and you see that in this book. ( )

Great book describing Carter's childhood. ( )

In the first Election of a United States President that I remember, Jimmy Carter was the clear winner. Though I haven’t always agreed with his political decisions and opinions, I have long admired the man as.a Christian, as a statesman, and as a humanitarian. In this book, he writes of his rural boyhood, and the people and events that shaped him. He provides thought-provoking insight into the history and norms of the Southern community that affected his views on race, on poverty, on the law, and on faith. It is equally a wealth of the daily experiences of rural life from a man of my father’s generation.