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001 2010034799
003 DLC
005 20120510082059.0
008 100818s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aJC599.U5$bP373 2010
082 00 $a323.0973$222
100 1 $aPeck, James,$d1944-
245 10 $aIdeal illusions :$bhow the U.S. government co-opted human rights /$cJames Peck.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books,$c2010.
300 $a369 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aAmerican empire project
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]- 353) and index.
505 0 $aWashington's world before the rise of human rights -- The Carter years : American foreign policy finds a soul -- The Reagan administration : democratization and proxy wars -- Human rights and China -- Post-Reagan : humanitarianism amid the ruins -- Terrorism and the pathology of American power.
520 $aAnalyzes the troubled dynamic between the U.S. government and the human rights movement, arguing that America became a standard for human rights as part of a controversial effort to further the nation's global influence.
650 0 $aHuman rights$xGovernment policy$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989-
830 0 $aAmerican empire project.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1201/2010034799-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1201/2010034799-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1201/2010034799-s.html