The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children & Yours 1994 Revised Gift Edition - Hardcover

Edelman, Marian Wright

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9780807031063: The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children & Yours 1994 Revised Gift Edition

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ISBN 10: 0807031062 ISBN 13: 9780807031063

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1994

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A beautiful gift edition of the number one New York Times bestseller—from the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund.

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"This book is from the heart of a woman who practices each lesson she preaches. It struck a deep chord in me as a mother trying to raise a daughter in difficult times."--Hillary ClintonA"Every parent and every child should read this book to each other."--T. Berry Brazleton, M.D.A"A celebration of the family, a benediction to the young, and an invocation to the nation's conscience."--Jonathan KozolA

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.

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