Bill Clinton's Call For Citizen Activism

Former President 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, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday.

Clinton, whose memoir "My Life" was a million seller, will tour nationwide to promote the book and will narrate the audio version.

"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 Knopf.

"The amount of good that so many individuals and NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) have been able to do has proven to me that almost everyone - regardless of income, available time, age, and skills - can do something useful for others and, in the process, strengthen the fabric of our shared humanity."

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." Financial terms for the book, first announced in May 2006, were not disclosed. Clinton is said to have received $10 million-$12 million for writing "My Life," the 957-page memoir that Knopf published in 2004.

By Hillel Italie