A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsRandom House Publishing Group, 2001 M03 30 - 368 páginas FINALIST FOR THE ROBERT F. KENNEDY BOOK AWARD • “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 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. |
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... political factor that not even the most hard-shelled realist could ignore. The Universal Declaration would become an instrument, as well as the most prominent symbol, of changes that would amplify the voices of the weak in the corridors ...
... political factor that not even the most hard-shelled realist could ignore. The Universal Declaration would become an instrument, as well as the most prominent symbol, of changes that would amplify the voices of the weak in the corridors ...
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... political and civil rights with public obligations to provide relief for the poor. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as continental European Socialist and Christian Democratic parties reacted to the harsh effects of ...
... political and civil rights with public obligations to provide relief for the poor. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as continental European Socialist and Christian Democratic parties reacted to the harsh effects of ...
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... political weapons: each yanked its favorite provisions out of context and ignored the rest. What began as expediency hardened into habit, until the sense of an integrated body of principles was lost. Today the Declaration is almost ...
... political weapons: each yanked its favorite provisions out of context and ignored the rest. What began as expediency hardened into habit, until the sense of an integrated body of principles was lost. Today the Declaration is almost ...
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... political differences and overcome personal animosities as they strove to articulate a clear set of principles with worldwide applicability. Their final product, they all acknowledged, was imperfect, yet they succeeded well enough to ...
... political differences and overcome personal animosities as they strove to articulate a clear set of principles with worldwide applicability. Their final product, they all acknowledged, was imperfect, yet they succeeded well enough to ...
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... politics and origins of the Declaration: the extensive diaries and papers of Charles Malik to which I was given ... political differences, cultural barriers, and personal rivalries. It is an account of their attempt to bring forth ...
... politics and origins of the Declaration: the extensive diaries and papers of Charles Malik to which I was given ... political differences, cultural barriers, and personal rivalries. It is an account of their attempt to bring forth ...
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Every Conceivable Right | |
A Philosophical Investigation | |
Late Nights in Geneva | |
In the Eye of the Hurricane | |
Autumn in Paris | |
The Nations Have Their | |
The Declaration of Interdependence | |
The Deep Freeze | |
Universality Under Siege | |
The Declaration Today | |
Notes | |
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human ... Mary Ann Glendon Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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