Argues that the strident language of rights that has been on the rise since World War II has stifled genuine debate, negotiation, and compromise and ultimately threatens the same liberties it seeks to protect[...]
A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed Un[...]