You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 130 words from this article are provided below; about 360 words remain.
 		 
If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:
• login here if you have already registered for online access.
• Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.

If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:
• Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.

Instititutions can:
•  Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.
| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2 | The History Cooperative
89.2  
Journals link Search link Partners link Information link
September, 2002
Previous
Table of Contents
Next
The Journal of American History

Table of contents
List journal issues
Home
Get a printer-friendly version of this page
 


Book Review

A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By Mary Ann Glendon. (New York: Random House, 2001. xxii, 333 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-679-46310-0.)

Mary Ann Glendon has written the definitive history of the successful effort by Eleanor Roosevelt and others in the late 1940s to draft and secure United Nations (UN) approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although the declaration was not put in the form of a legally binding commitment, Glendon emphasizes its importance as setting 1



a common standard by which the rights and wrongs of every nation's behavior could be measured, . . . a pillar of a new international system under which a na-tion's treatment of its own citizens was no longer immune from outside scrutiny.


. . .

There are about 360 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.