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

Glendon, Mary Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679463100 ISBN 13: 9780679463108

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

A new book on the beloved first lady chronicles the achievement she was most proud of--the Universal Declaration of Human Rights--and describes her intensive efforts to forge this powerful document in the turbulent period following World War II. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679463100
• ISBN 13: 9780679463108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 333