Tomorrow is Now
It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt Series: Penguin Classics
As relevant and influential now as it was in 1962, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become.
As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, this book is the author's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. It traces the author's country's struggle to embrace democracy and presents her declaration against fear, timidity, complacency, and national arrogance.
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As relevant and influential now as it was in 1962, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become.
As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, this book is the author's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. It traces the author's country's struggle to embrace democracy and presents her declaration against fear, timidity, complacency, and national arrogance.
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Available again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book-a battle cry for civil rightsAs relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963,Tomorrow Is Nowis Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. In bold, blunt prose, one of the greatest First Ladies of American history traces her country's struggle to embrace democracy and presents her declaration against fear, timidity, complacency, and national arrogance. An open, unrestrained look into her mind and heart as well as a clarion call to action,Tomorrow Is Nowis the work Eleanor Roosevelt willed herself to stay alive to finish writing. For this edition, former U.S. President Bill Clinton contributes a new foreword and Roosevelt historian Allida Black provides an authoritative introduction focusing on Eleanor Roosevelt's diplomatic career.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.Available again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book-a battle cry for civil rightsAs relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963,Tomorrow Is Nowis Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. In bold, blunt prose, one of the greatest First Ladies of American history traces her country's struggle to embrace democracy and presents her declaration against fear, timidity, complacency, and national arrogance. An open, unrestrained look into her mind and heart as well as a clarion call to action,Tomorrow Is Nowis the work Eleanor Roosevelt willed herself to stay alive to finish writing. For this edition, former U.S. President Bill Clinton contributes a new foreword and Roosevelt historian Allida Black provides an authoritative introduction focusing on Eleanor Roosevelt's diplomatic career.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.
About the Author
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and is widely considered one of America's greatest First Ladies.Allida Black is the preeminent Eleanor Roosevelt historian and the author of Casting Her Own Shadow- Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism and Courage in a Dangerous World- The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt. She lives in Washington, D.C.Bill Clintonwas the forty-second President of the United States. He lives in Westchester, New York.
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