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Product Description: Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day...read more
By Martha F. Davis (editor)
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9780812220797 | Abridged edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, November 3, 2009), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand.

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9780807819227 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $39.95

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9780807857380 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: This three-volume set chronicles the history of human rights in the United States from the perspective of domestic social justice activism. First, the set examines the political forces and historic events that resulted in the U.S...read more
By Catherine Albisa (editor), Martha F. Davis (editor) and Cynthia Soohoo (editor)
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9780275988210 | Praeger Pub Text, December 30, 2007, cover price $275.00 | About this edition: This three-volume set chronicles the history of human rights in the United States from the perspective of domestic social justice activism.

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Chronicles the forty-year friendship between the renowned civil rights activists, documenting how both evolved into leaders of the American liberal movement after World War II while offering insight into why they became ostracized for their political views even by fellow African-Americans. Original.
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9781568583556 | Nation Books, December 6, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the forty-year friendship between the renowned civil rights activists, documenting how both evolved into leaders of the American liberal movement after World War II while offering insight into why they became ostracized for their political views even by fellow African-Americans.

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Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years, a period during which concern for human rights became a major factor in foreign policy decision-making...read more
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9780415954228 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 1, 2006), cover price $146.00 | About this edition: This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years, a period during which concern for human rights became a major factor in foreign policy decision-making.

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9780415954235 | 1 edition (Routledge, September 5, 2006), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years, a period during which concern for human rights became a major factor in foreign policy decision-making.

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Using FDR's 1944 State of the Union Address as a starting point, the author delves deeply into the revolutionary mind that penned this remarkable declaration of economic rights and illuminates the demise of this ambitious program for reform in the wake of the president's death. Reprint.
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9780465083336 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, July 3, 2006), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Using FDR's 1944 State of the Union Address as a starting point, the author delves deeply into the revolutionary mind that penned this remarkable declaration of economic rights and illuminates the demise of this ambitious program for reform in the wake of the president's death.

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Presents a collection of cartoons and caricatures, accompanied by background and analysis, about the issue of civil liberties during times of war throughout the history of the United States.
By Andrea C. Nakaya (editor)
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9780737725179 | Greenhaven Pr, October 26, 2005, cover price $32.75 | About this edition: Presents a collection of cartoons and caricatures, accompanied by background and analysis, about the issue of civil liberties during times of war throughout the history of the United States.

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Using FDR's 1944 State of the Union Address as a starting point, the author delves deeply into the revolutionary mind that penned this remarkable declaration of economic rights and illuminates the demise of this ambitious program for reform in the wake of the president's death. 75,000 first printing.
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9780465083329 | Basic Books, July 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Using FDR's 1944 State of the Union Address as a starting point, the author delves deeply into the revolutionary mind that penned this remarkable declaration of economic rights and illuminates the demise of this ambitious program for reform in the wake of

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Product Description: Robert Justin Goldstein's "Political Repression in Modern America" provides the only comprehensive narrative account ever published of significant civil liberties violations concerning political dissidents since the rise of the post-Civil War modern American industrial state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780252026539 | 1st illino edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 2001), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Robert Justin Goldstein's "Political Repression in Modern America" provides the only comprehensive narrative account ever published of significant civil liberties violations concerning political dissidents since the rise of the post-Civil War modern American industrial state.

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9780252069642 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Robert Justin Goldstein's "Political Repression in Modern America" provides the only comprehensive narrative account ever published of significant civil liberties violations concerning political dissidents since the rise of the post-Civil War modern American industrial state.

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Product Description: Freedom: a promised land, a battle ground, America's cultural bond and fault line. In this history, Eric Foner describes the concept of freedom, not as a fixed set of inherited ideas, but as something that has evolved through time, being altered - or even entirely reinvented - by the various groups of people who have claimed a right to it...read more
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9780844672977 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 30, 2006, cover price $32.75 | About this edition: Freedom: a promised land, a battle ground, America's cultural bond and fault line.
9780756758042, titled "Story of American Freedom" | Diane Pub Co, November 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Over the course of American history, freedom has been a living truth for some Americans & a cruel mockery for others.
9780393046656 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of America's pursuit of liberty, tracing the struggles among freed slaves, union organizers, women rights advocates, and other groups to widen freedom's promise

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9780393319620 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of America's pursuit of liberty, tracing the struggles among freed slaves, union organizers, women rights advocates, and other groups to widen freedom's promise
9789990060546 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: This text explores the principal issues and developments, both in international human rights and in rights in the United States, and then compares the concepts and conditions of rights in various parts of the world. It pays particular attention to the role of US foreign policy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780231064446 | Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $63.50 | About this edition: Looks at the 1948 U.

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9780231064453 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This text explores the principal issues and developments, both in international human rights and in rights in the United States, and then compares the concepts and conditions of rights in various parts of the world.

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Interprets the history and significance of the Bill of Rights, and examines its impact on the design of the American government and the battle over civil and human rights
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9780394577630, titled "A People's Charter: The Pursuit of Rights in America" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 1, 1991, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Interprets the history and significance of the Bill of Rights, and examines its impact on the design of the American government and the battle over civil and human rights

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9780679741725, titled "People's Charter: The Pursuit of Rights in America" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1993), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Interprets the history and significance of the Bill of Rights, and examines its impact on the design of the American government and the battle over civil and human rights

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