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

玛丽·安·葛兰顿（Mary Ann Glendon） 哈佛大学勒尼德·汉德（Learned Hand）法学讲席教授、美国前任驻梵蒂冈大使、著名比较法和人权法学者，著有比较法经典教科书《比较法传统》（Comparative Legal Traditions）、《论坛与象牙塔》（The Forum and the Tower）、《混乱的传统》（Traditions in Turmoil）、《法律人统治的国度》（A Nation under Lawyers）、《权利话语》（Rights Talk）、《家事法的转型》（The Transformation of Family Law）、《西方法律下的堕胎与离婚》（Abortion and Divorce in Western Law）以及本书。葛兰顿教授是美国人文与科学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）成员，曾担任联合国教科文组织资助的学术团体“法律科学国际联合会”（International Association of Legal Science）的主席。