I heard about this book on NetGalley and when approved the egalley I was excited to try it out. It is sort of out of my wheelhouse, but sort of in it!

With a little historical (not fiction) angle, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote this little gem to inspire the youth of the time to engage and be a part of the democracy of their country. She started the "book" with the history of democracy and how it was shaped in the USA by many of the founding leaders and how each compromised to make our democracy what it is today.

The best chapters were 10 and 11 where she told/encouraged the youth what they have to sacrifice of themselves for the democracy and then what they can gain from it. It was eery to read this in the times we are in now and you can almost take out the Nazi Germany references and exchange them for whatever country you see having negative impacts on the world, I won't pinpoint the country that was on my mind.

The one interesting thing that being raised a Christian didn't fluff my feathers but could fluff others was her thought process on the relationship between religion and democracy and how being a religious person is a must to be a part of a democracy. I was interested in what she said but definitely made a few hmmms and want to read this again in the near future to really focus on those bits.

I loved this short little work and I love that it was re released and more people can get their eyes on it and get motivated to be active in their democracy and that everyone needs to do their part at the bottom to influence the top.