| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights. By Elizabeth Borgwardt. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2005. 437 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-018745.)

This engaging book is a welcome contribution to the literature that examines the significance of political and economic human rights in U.S. diplomatic history and more generally in American political discourse. Elizabeth Borgwardt contends that the Atlantic Charter is one of the foundational documents that contributed to the emerging post–World War II international system. Borgwardt argues that during World War II, U.S. foreign policy experienced a "seismic shift ... when the meaning of ideas about security, sovereignty, the national interest, and especially international human rights dramatically changed" (p. 300). That seismic shift occurred through a transatlantic consensus that the construction of the postwar world should be premised on the lessons learned from the failures of President Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations after World War I.

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