A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsRandom House, 2001 - 333 páginas A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed United nations and brought into being by an extraordinary group of men and women who knew, like the framers of the Declaration of Independence, that they were making history. They worked against the clock, the brief window between the end of World War II and the deep freeze of the cold war, to forget the founding document of the modern rights movement. A distinguished professor of international law, Mary Ann Glendon was given exclusive access to personal diaries and unpublished memoirs of key participants. An outstanding work of narrative history, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial moment in Eleanor Roosevelt's life and in world history. |
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... document as elegant as the Code Napoléon , whose lucid style and lapidary phrases were so much admired by the nov- elist Stendhal that he kept a copy on his bedside table , but they did guar- antee that the document would be more than a ...
... document as elegant as the Code Napoléon , whose lucid style and lapidary phrases were so much admired by the nov- elist Stendhal that he kept a copy on his bedside table , but they did guar- antee that the document would be more than a ...
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... document in one way . It will have to cover fewer rights . But in another way it will be more complicated because the way those rights are to be assured to people throughout the world , under law , must be spelled out , and every nation ...
... document in one way . It will have to cover fewer rights . But in another way it will be more complicated because the way those rights are to be assured to people throughout the world , under law , must be spelled out , and every nation ...
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... document and was prepared to accept it in its existing form , without further amendment , if the majority so agreed . In a vain effort to forestall prolonged discussion of each article , she re- minded the members of the third committee ...
... document and was prepared to accept it in its existing form , without further amendment , if the majority so agreed . In a vain effort to forestall prolonged discussion of each article , she re- minded the members of the third committee ...
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The Longing for Freedom | 3 |
Madam Chairman | 21 |
A Rocky Start | 35 |
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