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The Measure of Our Success: Letter to My Children and Yours
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The Measure of Our Success: Letter to My Children and Yours Paperback - 1993

by Marian Wright Edelman

This #1 New York Times bestseller is Edelman's personal letter to her three sons--a inspirational work of love filled with wisdom and advice, such as don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat for and don't be afraid to fail--it's the way you learn to do things right. The first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi bar, Edelman is founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund.


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#1 New York Times Bestseller

"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 Clinton

The Measure of Our Success is a book to turn lives around: a compassionate message for parents trying to raise moral children, a tough and searching book that ought to be required reading for every young American.

The book speaks powerfully to the author's three sons about the mothering Marian Wright Edelman gave them--mothering, she explains, that could not ignore other people's children who were in greater need. In the book's centerpiece, "Twenty-Five Lessons for Life," we're invited to listen as a loving and extraordinarily committed mother gives her children lessons to live by.

The Measure of Our Success is an open letter to all America, and a timely message of hope and purpose for everyone.

From the rear cover

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

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  • Title The Measure of Our Success: Letter to My Children and Yours
  • Author Marian Wright Edelman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-05-12
  • ISBN 9780060975463 / 0060975466
  • Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.06 x 0.29 in (20.47 x 12.85 x 0.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Holiday: Mother's Day
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Theometrics: Mainline
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Moral conditions, Child rearing - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92054846
  • Dewey Decimal Code 649.1
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