A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Random House Publishing Group, 2002 M06 11 - 368 páginas
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
 

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The Longing for Freedom
3
Madam Chairman
21
A Rocky Start
35
Every Conceivable Right
53
A Philosophical Investigation
73
Late Nights in Geneva
79
In the Eye of the Hurricane
99
Autumn in Paris
123
Universality Under Siege
221
The Declaration Today
235
Notes
243
Appendices
252
The Secretariats June 1947 Draft Humphrey Draft
271
The June 1947 Draft Revised by the Full Commission
281
The Commissions December 1947 Draft Geneva Draft
289
The December 1948 Third Committee Draft
300

The Nations Have Their Say
143
The Declaration of Interdependence
173
The Deep Freeze
193
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
310
Photo and Illustration Credits
335
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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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