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Reclaiming American virtue : the human rights revolution of the 1970s

text Reclaiming American virtue : the human rights revolution of the 1970s

Keys, Barbara J.

Summary
The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virt... Read more
Contents
The United States and the birth of universal human rights -- Civil rights and universal human rights -- Morality and the Vietnam War -- Right-wing dictatorships and liberal human rights appeals -- Senator Jackson, Soviet Jews, and anticommunist hu... Read more
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362 p.;
Publisher
Harvard University Press 2014
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 323.0973 KEY in Adult Non-fiction Available

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