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

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Mary Ann Glendon

A World Made New

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Mary Ann Glendon

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Random House
15 June 2002

Biography: general; History; History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Politics & government

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

By: Mary Ann Glendon
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 306g
ISBN: 9780375760464
ISBN 10: 0375760466
Pages: 342
Publication Date: 15 June 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is the author of Rights Talk and Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, and winner of the Scribes Book Award.

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

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