75, [1] pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, gold and red decorations, photographic frontispiece portrait of Keller. Second book by the famous advocate for disability rights, who was born without sight, speech, or hearing, but managed to earn a degree from Radcliffe College at Harvard University at the age of 24 (the first deafblind student to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in the United States). She was also a suffragist, pacifist, radical socialist, birth control supporter, and opponent of Woodrow Wilson. This essays includes three parts: Optimism Within; Optimism Without; The Practice of Optimism.
