The Rights of Spring: A Memoir of Innocence Abroad

by David Kennedy

Book Overview

Ana reported being blindfolded, doused in cold water. She was tied to a metal frame; electrodes were fastened to her body. Someone cranked a hand-operated generator.

One spring more than twenty years ago, David Kennedy visited Ana in an Uruguayan prison as part of the first wave of humanitarian activists to take the fight for human rights to the very sites where atrocities were committed. Kennedy was eager to learn what human rights workers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069114138X
• ISBN13: 9780691141381
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 7.2"