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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674724852
ISBN-139780674724853
eBay Product ID (ePID)166640244
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameReclaiming American Virtue : the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s
Publication Year2014
SubjectUnited States / 20th Century, Human Rights, International Relations / General, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
AuthorBarbara J. Keys
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight26.8 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2013-015286
ReviewsThe most comprehensive account of a central issue of U.S. foreign policy during an exceptionally important decade, Reclaiming American Virtue is clearly a major achievement., A genuine masterpiece of the historian's craft, Reclaiming American Virtue shows how human rights were a tonic for the country's self-confidence. America's fusion of moral principle and global violence in today's world no longer looks the same after this revelatory book., An accessible, searching study of an idea that seems to have been forgotten in favor of the steely, cost-cutting pragmatism of today., Today, human rights and global interdependence are accepted as an essential basis for national and international affairs. Barbara Keys shows precisely when, where, and how this complete reconceptualization of the America's role in the world came about. A major contribution to the growing body of literature in human rights history., This timely, well-reasoned study demonstrates why Americans from across the political spectrum embraced international human rights as a foreign policy goal., Today, human rights and global interdependence are accepted as an essential basis for national and international affairs. Barbara Keys shows precisely when, where, and how this complete reconceptualization of America's role in the world came about. A major contribution to the growing body of literature in human rights history.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal323.097309047
SynopsisThe 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 States against the evils of communism. Liberals sought moral cleansing by dissociating the United States from foreign malefactors, spotlighting abuses such as torture in Chile, South Korea, and other right-wing allies. When Jimmy Carter in 1977 made human rights a central tenet of American foreign policy, his administration struggled to reconcile these conflicting visions. Yet liberals and conservatives both saw human rights as a way of moving from guilt to pride. Less a critique of American power than a rehabilitation of it, human rights functioned for Americans as a sleight of hand that occluded from view much of America's recent past and confined the lessons of Vietnam to narrow parameters. It would be a small step from world's judge to world's policeman, and American intervention in the name of human rights would be a cause both liberals and conservatives could embrace., 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 because a cause both the left and right could embrace.
LC Classification NumberJC599.U5K49 2014
