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Tomorrow Is Now

It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future

Available again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book—a battle cry for civil rights As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is 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 Now is 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 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.

... any reader today, nor does her impatience with thosewho wouldlimitthe
opportunities for womenandgirls in the name of tradition. This said, it would
beamistaketo read Tomorrow Is Now and grumble, “Why hasn'tanythingchanged
?” Mrs. Roosevelt—born, after all,inthe nineteenth century—certainly doesn't. In
clear, precise words, she marvelsathow far thecountryhas come sinceher
childhood, and urges us to presson. Things have changed for the better, butwe
must do more, faster.