A World Made New
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
$37.91
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2002
Summary
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 gav…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375760464 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375760466 |
| Author: | Mary Ann Glendon |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2002 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 132mm x 202mm |
Critics Review
“Riveting and important…Glendon tells this story with vivid detail and narrative drive.”
—The Washington Post
“Vividly written and evenhanded, A World Made New is an important, potentially galvanizing book, and in this frightful, ferocious time, marked by war and agony, it is urgent reading.”
—Blanche Wiesen Cook, Los Angeles Times
“A terrific story, and Glendon tells it well….An illuminating and unexpectedly timely book.”
—The New Republic
“The definitive account…Anybody concerned with the question of human rights in today’s world will need to read it and refer to it.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Mary Ann Glendon
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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