Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill of rights.

A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the

modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion.

A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, and in world history.

Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

瑪麗·安·葛蘭頓（Mary Ann Glendon） 哈佛大學勒尼德·漢德（Learned Hand）法學講席教授、美國前任駐梵蒂岡大使、著名比較法和人權法學者，著有比較法經典教科書《比較法傳統》（Comparative Legal Traditions）、《論壇與象牙塔》（The Forum and the Tower）、《混亂的傳統》（Traditions in Turmoil）、《法律人統治的國度》（A Nation under Lawyers）、《權利話語》（Rights Talk）、《傢事法的轉型》（The Transformation of Family Law）、《西方法律下的墮胎與離婚》（Abortion and Divorce in Western Law）以及本書。葛蘭頓教授是美國人文與科學院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）成員，曾擔任聯閤國教科文組織資助的學術團體“法律科學國際聯閤會”（International Association of Legal Science）的主席。