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

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.

"...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