LEADER 03841nam 2200625 450 001 9910464737003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-72691-X 010 $a0-674-72603-0 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674726031 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092392 035 $a(EBL)3301416 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134610 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11591150 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134610 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11184024 035 $a(PQKB)10997086 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301416 035 $a(DE-B1597)460908 035 $a(OCoLC)871257472 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726031 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301416 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10844278 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092392 100 $a20140319h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReclaiming American virtue $ethe human rights revolution of the 1970s /$fBarbara J. Keys 205 $aPilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-72485-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Enter Human Rights --$t1. The Postwar Marginality of Universal Human Rights --$t2. Managing Civil Rights at Home --$t3. The Trauma of the Vietnam War --$t4. The Liberal Critique of Right-Wing Dictatorships --$t5. The Anticommunist Embrace of Human Rights --$t6. A New Calculus Emerges --$t7. Insurgency on Capitol Hill --$t8. The Human Rights Lobby --$t9. A Moralist Campaigns for President --$t10. ?We Want to Be Proud Again? --$tConclusion: Universal Human Rights in American Foreign Policy --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliographical Essay --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe American commitment to promoting human rights abroad emerged in the 1970's as a surprising response to national trauma. In this provocative history, Barbara Keys situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans on the right and the left looked outward for ways to restore America's moral leadership. Conservatives took up the language of Soviet dissidents to resuscitate the Cold War, while liberals sought to dissociate from brutally repressive allies like Chile and South Korea. 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. From world's judge to world's policeman was a small step, and American intervention in the name of human rights would be a cause both liberals and conservatives could embrace. 606 $aHuman rights$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aHuman rights advocacy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman rights$xGovernment policy 615 0$aHuman rights advocacy 676 $a323.0973/09047 700 $aKeys$b Barbara J.$01038712 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464737003321 996 $aReclaiming American virtue$92460474 997 $aUNINA