The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation

Edelman, Marian Wright

ISBN 10: 1401323332 / ISBN 13: 9781401323332

Published by U.S.A.: Hyperion, 2008

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SIGNED on a publisher's bookplate on the front free endpaper--visible in photo. New book that was opened only for signing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation
• Publisher: U.S.A.: Hyperion
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1401323332
• ISBN 13: 9781401323332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A founder of the Children's Defense Fund evaluates what has been achieved and what still needs to be done in order to make the nation safe and fair for children, in an uplifting call-to-arms that is presented as a series of open letters to the author's grandchildren, the nation's leaders, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 100,000 first printing.

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, as well as numerous others that she has authored and edited. She is the winner of many awards for her work including a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Neibuhr 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.