A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780375760464ISBN-10:375760466UPC:9780375760464Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Human Rights, Women's StudiesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.32 x 4.89 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCPGW4DA65
Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world's first international bill of rights. A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion. A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelt's life, and in world history. Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780375760464ISBN-10:375760466UPC:9780375760464Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Human Rights, Women's StudiesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.32 x 4.89 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCPGW4DA65
Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. She led the Vatican delegation to the Beijing Women's Rights conference in 1995, the first woman ever to lead a Vatican delegation, and has been featured on Bill Moyers's World of Ideas. She is the author of Rights Talk; A Nation under Lawyers; Comparative Legal Traditions (a classic textbook on international law); Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, winner of the Scribes Book Award; and The Transformation of Family Law, winner of the Order of the Coif Prize, the legal academy's highest award for scholarship. She lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
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