"Paul Tough's clear-eyed portrait of Geoffrey Canada offers the most cogent, provocative, and original thinking on urban poverty to come along in many, many years. Whatever It Takes pushed me to question what I thought I knew. Powerful and hopeful, disturbing and daring, it's one important book. Essential, even." — Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here.

"I wish every city had a Geoffrey Canada. As Paul Tough shows so vividly in Whatever It Takes, Canada is a man of integrity and heart who knows what it takes to ensure that every child has a fair shot in life. His vision of a renewed Harlem community, and his accomplishments toward achieving it, attest to the power we all have to overcome poverty and hopelessness in America." — President Bill Clinton

"This is not just a gripping story of one man's heroic attempt to pull an entire neighborhood's worth of children up by their bootstraps. It's also a wise and expansive chronicle of a living, breathing science experiment. In Whatever It Takes, Paul Tough takes on one of the biggest questions going: how do you teach people to be successful?" — Stephen Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics

Background

For more information on the Harlem Children's Zone, please visit their web site at hcz.org.

More background on Whatever It Takes coming soon.

Whatever It Takes Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

Background

Whatever It Takes
Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America