Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights

by James Peck

Book Overview

From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent ideological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805083286
• ISBN13: 9780805083286
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"