Make Trouble

Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story

Author: Cecile Richards
ISBN: 9781501187599

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Richards offers practical advice and inspiration for aspiring leaders everywhere.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton “An enthralling memoir.” —Booklist (starred review) To Make Change, You Have to Make Trouble From Cecile Richards—president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and a “heroine of the resistance” (Vogue)—comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women’s rights and social justice.Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal’s office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. She had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist mother taught their kids to be troublemakers. In the Richards househo

Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publish Date: 2018-04-03

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Biography/Autobiograpy)