Reclaiming American Virtue The Human Rights Revolution of The 1970s |
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| Author:
| Keys, Barbara J. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-72485-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2014 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.00 |
Book Description:
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Human rights emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam trauma, Barbara Keys shows. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans looked outward for ways to restore their moral leadership. From world's judge to world's policeman was a small step, and intervention in the name of human rights because a cause both the left and right could embrace.
Human rights emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam trauma, Barbara Keys shows. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans looked outward for ways to restore their moral leadership. From world's judge to world's policeman was a small step, and intervention in the name of human rights because a cause both the left and right could embrace.