Speak Truth to Power - Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World

Cuomo, Kerry Kennedy and Adams, Eddie

ISBN 10: 0812930622 / ISBN 13: 9780812930627

Published by Crown, New York, 2000

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SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO HALF TITLE PAGE WITH NO DEDICATION. Silver and blind embossed title on red boards which have a line of fading to front top edge and a touch of wear to spine head and tail and lower corner tips. Internally Fine and unmarked. Dustjacket has small losses to lower spine and lower front with creasing along top and bottom edges. A very large format volume of 256 pages. The book presents an inspiring rainbow of heroes from more than 35 countries and 5 continents. In searing and uplifting interviews, veteran human rights defender Kerry Kennedy Cuomo examines the quality of courage with women and men who are dramatically changing the course of events in their communities and countries. Accompanying the interviews are a powerful series of portraits by world-renowned, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Eddie Adams. Among the activists are some well known ones in the fight against oppression and mistreatment of people around the world, such as Baltasar Garzón, Vaclav Havel, Sister Helen Prejean, Marian Wright Edelman, The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, José Ramon-Horta, Rigoberta Menchú-Tum, and Bobby Muller. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.98 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 5 Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speak Truth to Power - Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World
• Publisher: Crown, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812930622
• ISBN 13: 9780812930627
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography/Photographers

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Synopsis

A human rights attorney and an award-winning photojournalist join forces to present a memorable collection of fifty profiles of individuals, both famous and unsung, who are struggling to make a difference in the world, including portraits of Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Helen Prejean, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, and others from nations around the world. 25,000 first printing.

About the Author

Kerry Kennedy Cuomo is the mother of three girls, Cara, Mariah, and Michaela. She started working in human rights in 1981; since then, her life has been devoted to the establishment of equal justice. She has led more than forty human rights delegations to more than thirty countries. Kennedy Cuomo established the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in 1987 to ensure the protection of rights codified under the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. She has worked on diverse human rights issues such as child labor, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, the environment, and women's rights. Ms. Kennedy Cuomo serves as Chair of the Amnesty International Leadership Council and serves on boards or advisory committees for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, The Bloody Sunday Trust, the Robert F Kennedy Memorial, the Gleitsman Foundation, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, the Committee on the Administration of justice (Northern Ireland), and the International Campaign for Tibet among others. She is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars.

Eddie Adams, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and recipient of more than 500 international, national, and local awards, is one of the most decorated and published photographers in America today. Adams's photographs have been seen on the covers and front pages of international publications including Time, Newsweek,New York Times, Stern, Paris Match, Parade, Vanity Fair, Life, and London Sunday Times. His portraits include leaders world wide from presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Bush, Reagan, and Clinton to more than fifty heads of states, including Fidel Castro, François Mitterand, the Shah of Iran, Indira Gandhi, King Hussein of Jordan, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Yitzhak Rabin, Pope John Paul, and Deng Xiao-Ping of China. But Adams's earliest pictures, and those for which he is canonized in photographic history, stem from his coverage of the ravages of thirteen wars. In Vietnam he went on more than 150 operations. In 1968 he photographed the indelible picture of the Saigon police chief shooting a Vietcong prisoner at point-blank range, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. In 1977 his photographs of the boat people escaping Vietnam contributed to Congress's decision to admit 200,000 Vietnamese to America.