Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

by Marian Wright Edelman

Overview

The #1 New York Times bestseller is a thinking person's Life's Little Instruction Book, with simple yet inspirational messages about living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060975463
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/28/1993
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	133,919
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her husband live in Washington, D.C., and have three children and four grandchildren.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

I recommend The Measure of Our Success to everyone concerned about the future of our children. —Bill Cosby

Editorial Reviews

"...at once a celebration of family, a benediction to the young and an invocation to the nation's conscience...above all, an utterly moral work—an utterance of faith and courage in a time of cynicism and despair."   Jonathan Kozol

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