Lynn Hunt is distinguished research professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Writing History in the Global Era, and a former president of the American Historical Association, she lives in Los Angeles.
"Elegant... intriguing, if not audacious... Hunt is an astute
historian."
*Joanna Bourke - Harper's*
"Fast-paced, provocative, and ultimately optimistic. Declarations,
she writes, are not empty words but transformative; they make us
want to become the people they claim we are."
*The New Yorker*
"A provocative and engaging history of the political impact of
human rights."
*Gary J. Bass - New Republic*
"This is a wonderful story of the emergence and development of the
powerful idea of human rights, written by one of the leading
historians of our time."
*Amartya Sen*
"Rich, elegant, and persuasive."
*London Review of Books*
"As Americans begin to hold their leaders accountable for the
mistakes made in the war against terror, this book ought to serve
as a guide to thinking about one of the most serious mistakes of
all, the belief that America can win that war by revoking the
Declaration that brought the nation into being."
*Alan Wolfe - Commonweal*
"Elegant... intriguing, if not audacious... Hunt is an astute
historian." -- Joanna Bourke - Harper's
"Fast-paced, provocative, and ultimately optimistic. Declarations,
she writes, are not empty words but transformative; they make us
want to become the people they claim we are." -- The New Yorker
"A provocative and engaging history of the political impact of
human rights." -- Gary J. Bass - New Republic
"This is a wonderful story of the emergence and development of the
powerful idea of human rights, written by one of the leading
historians of our time." -- Amartya Sen
"Rich, elegant, and persuasive." -- London Review of Books
"As Americans begin to hold their leaders accountable for the
mistakes made in the war against terror, this book ought to serve
as a guide to thinking about one of the most serious mistakes of
all, the belief that America can win that war by revoking the
Declaration that brought the nation into being." -- Alan Wolfe -
Commonweal
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