Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions,
Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked
by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the
auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world's first
international bill of rights.
A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the
remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated
in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the
modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second
World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope
between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to
articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every
country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or
religion.
A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and
letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at
Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is
the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor
Roosevelt's life, and in world history.
Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award