A Most Uncertain Crusade

By - Brucken, Rowland.

Floor - Floor 1

Published - DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, 2013.

ISBN 10 - 0875804713

ISBN 13 - 9780875804712

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Shelf No - 18

Call Number - 341.4809 BRU

Physical Description - (x, 362 pages)

Notes - Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-347) and index.

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"Traces the emergence of human rights as both an accepted international concern and as a controversial domestic issue for American policymakers during and after World War II. Brucken explains why the U.S. government, after issuing wartime declarations that called for the definition and enforcement of international human rights standards, subsequently refused to ratify the first U.N. treaties that fulfilled those twin purposes"--

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