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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,