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Summary: A Must read for those who care about human rights and justic
Review: 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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Summary: A Thoughtful Remeberance
Review: 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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Summary: A Thoughtful Remeberance
Review: 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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