A WORLD MADE NEW: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by Glendon, Mary Ann
- New
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0375760466
- ISBN 13
- 9780375760464
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Synopsis
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distinguished professor of international law, Mary Ann Glendon was given exclusive access to personal diaries and unpublished memoirs of key participants.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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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025070
- Title
- A WORLD MADE NEW: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Author
- Glendon, Mary Ann
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375760466
- ISBN 13
- 9780375760464
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 368
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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