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050	0	4	_aJC599 _b.R435 2014
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100	1		_aKeys, Barbara J. _e1
245	1	0	_aReclaiming American virtue : _bthe human rights revolution of the 1970s / _cBarbara J. Keys.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (362 pages) : _billustrations.
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: enter human rights --The postwar marginality of universal human rights -- _tManaging civil rights at home -- _tThe trauma of the Vietnam War -- _tThe liberal critique of right-wing dictatorships -- _tThe anticommunist embrace of human rights -- _tA new calculus emerges -- _tInsurgency on Capitol Hill -- _tThe human rights lobby -- _tA moralist campaigns for president -- _t"We want to be proud again" -- _tConclusion: universal human rights in American foreign policy.
520	0		_aThe 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 resuscitate a Cold War narrative that pitted a virtuous United States against the evils of communism. Liberals sought moral cleansing by dissociating the United States from foreign malefactors, spotlighting abuses such as torture in Chile, South Korea, and other right-wing allies. 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. It would be a small step from world's judge to world's policeman, and American intervention in the name of human rights would be a cause both liberals and conservatives could embrace.
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650		0	_aHuman rights _xGovernment policy _zUnited States.
650		0	_aHuman rights advocacy _zUnited States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=575627&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell