A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

5 best books like A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Mary Ann Glendon): War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, Russian Thinkers, Magnificence, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, The Four Loves

War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

Author	Ronan Farrow
ISBN	0393652106

American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We’re becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later.

In an astonishing account ranging...

Russian Thinkers

Author	Isaiah Berlin
ISBN	0140136258

The theme that links the essays in this book, written over 30 years, is the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia, which Isaiah Berlin describes as the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.

Contents

Introduction: A Complex Vision, by Aileen Kelly

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Magnificence

Author	Lydia Millet
ISBN	0393346854

Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times). Salon praised her for writing that is "always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." The Village Voice added, "If Kurt...

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

Author

Samuel Moyn

The title is not quite right--instead of human rights in history, this is a realist critique since 1945, asking the question I have at the heart of my deep cynicism: rather than lionize the people and documents that talk about human rights, why not ask why no one feels compelled to obey them? With sidelights...

The Four Loves

Author	C.S. Lewis
ISBN	0062565397

A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.

C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster,...