Tomorrow Is Now

<b>Available again in time for election season Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book--a battle cry for civil rights<br></b><br>As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963 <i>Tomorrow Is Now</i> 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 <i>Tomorrow Is Now</i> 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. <p/>For more than sixty-five years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1500 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.