The Measure of Our Success by Marian Wright Edelman

The Measure of Our Success by Marian Wright Edelman

#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.

The Children's Defense Fund was founded and is led by Marian Wright Edelman. She is the author of eight books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Message to My Children and Yours. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award for her work. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Humanitarian Award in 2000. For her publications, she received the Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Edelman is a Yale Law School and Spelman College graduate. She and her husband have three children and four grandkids and live in Washington, D.C.