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A people's charter : the pursuit of rights in America

Title
A people's charter : the pursuit of rights in America / James MacGregor Burns and Stewart Burns.
Author
Burns, James MacGregor.
Publication
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1991.

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Additional Authors
Burns, Stewart.
Description
xi, 577 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Published on the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, this is a sweeping chronicle of the struggle for political and economic justice. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns and Stewart Burns trace America's tenuous hold on freedom from the time of the 13 colonies' exclusionist voting practices to Ronald Reagan's campaign against the First Amendment reinforced by private "new right" groups and fundamentalists. They also analyze antislavery and workers' struggles, the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, McCarthy-era abuses, civil rights, women's activism, and encroachments by the FBI on personal freedoms. The authors envisage a "Great Majority" dependent on women's leadership coming to power and establishing a massive rights program, and conclude that rights measures in the United States have been "too little, too late, too short-lived." ISBN 0-394-57763-9: $30.00
Subject
  • Civil rights > United States > History
  • Human rights > United States > History
  • Civil rights
  • Human rights
  • Menschenrecht
  • Geschichte
  • Bürgerrecht
  • Human rights
  • Constitutional rights
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-557) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. The birth of rights. The new world of rights. The revolutions of rights. -- pt. 2. Crossing to Jerusalem. Bonds of womanhood. Rights to bread and roses -- pt. 3. The reconstruction of rights. New Deal -- new rights? Hot war, Cold War: rights besieged -- pt. 4. Everybody sing freedom. Rights to liberation: women at the cutting edge -- pt. 5. The crossfire of rights. A global bill of human rights. Transforming rights.
ISBN
  • 0394577639
  • 9780394577630
LCCN
91052855
OCLC
  • ocm23652358
  • 23652358
  • SCSB-1958256
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library