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by Mary Ann Glendon (Author) "Politics, it has been said, is "the arena where conscience and power meet, and will be meeting until the end of time ..." (more)
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In 1947, in a world recently ripped apart by the Holocaust, a devastating war and mass displacement, the very idea of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights seemed both impossible and supremely necessary. As the specter of the Cold War loomed, a U.N. delegation, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, began writing what would become the world's first standard statement of human rights. Glendon, a professor of law at Harvard University, has written a compelling, at times thrilling account of how Roosevelt and her cohorts argued and cajoled one another through a series of intellectual, political and moral positions, finally hammering out a statement that was acceptable across national, religious and philosophical lines. While Glendon successfully traces the evolution of the documentAwhich was ratified on December 10, 1948, after six drafts and much debate by the U.N. General AssemblyAshe also presents a richly textured portrait of a woman driven to public service while simultaneously grieving for her late husband. Roosevelt's politics were also at issue: at one point, she resigned from the U.N. over the U.S. government's initial disapproval of the creation of Israel. Glendon concludes with a legal analysis of the declaration and a lengthy discussion of its applicability today, when many non-Western nations (such as China) claim that the concept of "universal" human rights precepts precludes an acceptance of cultural differences. Glendon's work is a welcome addition to the realm of international law and to the growing body of literature on Eleanor Roosevelt's role in modern politics. Agents, Lynn Chu and Glen Hartley, Writer's Representatives.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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When it was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the first formal statement of what the phrase human rights actually entailed. Glendon (law, Harvard) has written a legislative history of the Declaration covering both the negotiation process and the ratification debates and process during the years 1946-52. The book is based on extensive access to the diaries and unpublished memoirs of many of the participants as they worked with the horrors of World War II fresh in their minds and against the backdrop of the rapidly chilling Cold War. While the content and phrasing of the Declaration are the product of the many fine minds and strong personalities who worked on it, Eleanor Roosevelt is here given full credit for facilitating the process and steering the group to a final agreement that incorporated the best from many cultural and religious traditions. Recommended for academic libraries and broad Roosevelt collections.DMarcia L. Sprules, Council on Foreign Relations Lib., New York
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must read for those who care about human rights and justic, Jul 22 2001
By MotherLodeBeth "MotherLodeBeth" (Sierras of California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Hardcover)
Just over 300 pages and a big book at that full of the most interesting facts and for some of us reminders of how things used to be and how they got better under First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was ahead of her time. A Stateswoman in my views.

It is a book that began in 1945 here in San Francisco California when delegates to the April gathering from fifty lands top found the UN and start an organization that would help tackle many of the problems that now faced post World War Two countries. The Allied leaders as is noted had agreed in principle on the need of an International organization to help prevent future aggression, assure stability of frontiers and provide a means to resolving disputes amongst nations with the most vigorous supporter being FDR himself. But it would be Harry Truman who would talk Mrs Roosevelt into the idea.

The Chapters cover The longing for freedom, the rocky start, every conceivable right, the philosophical elements, late nights in Geneva working out the details, being in the eye of a social and political hurricane, what happens while in the fall in Paris, how each nation got its say, the declaration of independence, hitting a deep freeze of thought and of nations and what this declaration has evolved into today.

The author is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard and what she has written should be a must read for anyone who gives a damn about human rights and the genius and sainthoodness of our late First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a reminder to young women what they too can accomplish.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Thoughtful Remeberance, Mar 2 2001
By andrew michels (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Hardcover)
Professor Glendon vividly and lucidly elaborates the people and events whose obscure work yielded perhaps the single most important document of the second half of the 20th Century.

For those of us who are privileged to live under the blanket of freedom, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights might not be understood to be the beacon of hope and freedom that is has become to many millions around the world who live in conditions of extraordinary disadvantage. This book is a gift in that it provides with a detailed narrative of the places, people, and events which conspired to deliver the UDHR at a moment in history when it was so desperately needed.

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