Barbara J. Keys (University of Melbourne). Reclaiming American Virtue (Harvard University Press)."The American commitment to international rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans on the right and left alike looked outward for ways to restore America's moral leadership. . . . [L]iberals and conservatives both saw human rights as a way of moving guilt to pride."
—Reclaiming American Virtue book jacket
