President Clinton’s Book on Philanthropy Will Benefit Several Charities
September 5, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
Former President Bill Clinton’s new book, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, offers stories of people and nonprofit organizations that have worked to alleviate social problems through giving their time, money, or expertise. Mr. Clinton is donating a portion of the book’s proceeds to charities.
Some newspapers have praised the book’s intentions while criticizing Mr. Clinton’s delivery. The Boston Globe calls it “a book of scattered focus and dryly wonkish prose that may be effective as a resource for giving but won’t exactly keep you up late reading.”
The Bloomberg wire service laments the lack of “the barn-burner speeches he’s capable of in person,” but hopefully adds that his book “does hint at ways that a viable politics might once again be practiced in America.”
The Washington Post discusses Mr. Clinton’s book party in New York, where several charity workers presented their stories in person. Majora Carter, who founded Sustainable South Bronx to support local environmental reform, and Mark Grashow, who created the U.S.-Africa Children’s Fellowship to improve school conditions on that continent, spoke to the crowd that gathered to celebrate the release of Giving.
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