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Reclaiming American Virtue
Barbara J. Keys
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Description for Reclaiming American Virtue
Hardcover. 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. This book shows that human rights emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam trauma. Num Pages: 324 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 732.
The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans on the right and the left alike looked outward for ways to restore America’s moral leadership.
Conservatives took up the language of Soviet dissidents to resuscitate a Cold War narrative that pitted a virtuous United ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
324
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
731g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674724853
SKU
V9780674724853
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About Barbara J. Keys
Barbara J. Keys is Associate Professor of U.S. and International History at the University of Melbourne.
Reviews for Reclaiming American Virtue
Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s is a vigorous and engaging account of the emergence of the concept and its non-linear journey from lip-serving political piety to an integral, if contradictory, component of the foreign policy of the U.S.
Marilyn B. Young
Times Higher Education
An accessible, searching study of an idea that ... Read more
Marilyn B. Young
Times Higher Education
An accessible, searching study of an idea that ... Read more