Clinton book out Sept. 4

Former President Bill Clinton’s planned book on citizen activism, “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World,” will come out Sept. 4 with a first printing of 750,000 copies.

“I’ve done my best in this book to demonstrate what I’ve seen firsthand through my (William J. Clinton) Foundation’s work in Africa and around the world: that all kinds of giving can make a profoundly positive difference,” Clinton said in a statement released by publisher Alfred A. Knopf.

According to Knopf, the book was written by Clinton himself and features “a number of extraordinary people and organizations – some famous, as well as many private citizens whom readers will be hearing about for the first time – all of whom represent a global floodtide of nongovernmental nonprofit activity.”

Proceeds will be donated “to charities and nonprofits that are doing their part to change the world.”