The 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...
The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising resp...
A study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, it examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup.
A study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United St...
