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Barbara J. Keys
Reclaiming American Virtue [EPUB ebook]
The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s

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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 became a cause both the left and right could embrace.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 368 ● ISBN 9780674726031 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2933312 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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