Eleanor Roosevelt lived an astonishing life, an object lesson in service, determination, compromise, practical idealism…the list goes on and on! Fortunately for us, her life was also a well-documented one, thanks in no small part to the First Lady's prolific writing. What Are We For? gathers hundreds of her thoughts and observations on myriad topics: political leadership, civil liberties, women and work, racial and religious prejudice, becoming an individual, and more. Decades later, her words remain a clarion call for the importance of doing our part to make our communities a better place.