Reclaiming American virtue the human rights revolution of the 1970s /

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 th...

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Main Author: Keys, Barbara J.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Physical Description: 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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505 0 |a The United States and the birth of universal human rights -- Civil rights and universal human rights -- Morality and the Vietnam War -- Right-wing dictatorships and liberal human rights appeals -- Senator Jackson, Soviet Jews, and anticommunist human rights -- Turning point: 1973 -- Kissinger and the origins of human rights diplomacy, 1974/1975 -- The human rights lobby -- Morality and human rights in the 1976 presidential campaign -- "We want to be proud again": the Carter years. 
520 |a 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 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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