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 A distinguished professor of international law, Mary Ann Glendon was given exclusive access to personal diaries and unpublished memoirs of key participants.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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... hope for peace lies in the United Nations , I naturally grieve to see this country do anything which harms the strength of the UN . If we could have given help for re- lief and rehabilitation on a purely non - political basis , and then ...
... hope for peace lies in the United Nations , I naturally grieve to see this country do anything which harms the strength of the UN . If we could have given help for re- lief and rehabilitation on a purely non - political basis , and then ...
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... hope to keep them , " she announced to the group assembled in the former home of the League of Nations overlooking Lake Geneva . She had devised a plan to keep eighteen noses to the grindstone . " I immediately laid out a schedule of ...
... hope to keep them , " she announced to the group assembled in the former home of the League of Nations overlooking Lake Geneva . She had devised a plan to keep eighteen noses to the grindstone . " I immediately laid out a schedule of ...
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... hope that they will not have completely forgotten us when we get home at the end of almost six weeks . " In a column written on her last day in Geneva , after a meeting with the UN high commissioner for refugees , she brooded on the ...
... hope that they will not have completely forgotten us when we get home at the end of almost six weeks . " In a column written on her last day in Geneva , after a meeting with the UN high commissioner for refugees , she brooded on the ...
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The Longing for Freedom | 3 |
Madam Chairman | 21 |
A Rocky Start | 35 |
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