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Reclaiming American Virtue
The American commitment to promoting human rights abroad emerged in the 1970s as a surprising response to national trauma. In this provocative history, Barbara Keys situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans on the right and the left looked outward for ways to restore America's moral leadership. Conservatives took up the language of Soviet dissidents to resuscitate the Cold War, while liberals sought to dissociate from brutally repressive allies like Chile and South Korea. When Jimmy Carter in 1977 made human rights a central tenet of American foreign policy, his administration struggled to reconcile these conflicting visions. Yet liberals and conservatives both saw human rights as a way of moving from guilt to pride. Less a critique of American power than a rehabilitation of it, human rights functioned for Americans as a sleight of hand that occluded from view much of America's recent past and confined the lessons of Vietnam to narrow parameters. From world's judge to world's policeman was a small step, and American intervention in the name of human rights would be a cause both liberals and conservatives could embrace.
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Globalizing sport : national rivalry and international community in the 1930s
In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. She examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, celebrity-packed, politically resonant, globally popular entertainment extravaganzas familiar to us today. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she details how countries of widely varying ideologies were drawn to participate in the emerging global culture. She tells of Hollywood and Coca-Cola jazzing up the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, of Hitler crowing over the 1936 Berlin games, and of the battle between democracy and dictatorship in the famed boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. Keys also presents one of the best accounts to date of the Soviet relationship to Western sports before the rise of the \"big red sports machine.\"
While international sport could be manipulated for nationalist purposes, it was also a vehicle for values—such as individualism and universalism—that subverted nationalist ideologies. The 1930s were thus a decade not just of conflict but of cultural integration, which laid a foundation for the postwar growth of international ties.
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Reclaiming American virtue : the human rights revolution of the 1970s
Human rights emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam trauma, Barbara Keys shows. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans looked outward for ways to restore their moral leadership. From world's judge to world's policeman was a small step, and intervention in the name of human rights because a cause both the left and right could embrace.
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Globalizing Sport
Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the 1930s. Focusing on the U.S., Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympics and the World Cup from small-scale events to the expensive, political, global extravaganzas of today.
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Globalizing Sport
In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.
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The Trauma of the Vietnam War
On june 8, 1972, a South Vietnamese plane dropped napalm on the village of Trang Bang, South Vietnam, setting huts and people aflame. As the villagers fled their homes, Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut snapped rolls of photographs. One of them, appearing the next day on the front pages of almost every major news–paper in the United States, showed five children running down a road, crying. In the center was a nine-year-old girl whose clothes had been burned off, her face a grimace of pain and fear. Ut’s photo would become an iconic image of the war,
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The Anticommunist Embrace of Human Rights
To write of Senator Henry M. Jackson is to conjure up the Cold War. Anticommunism was his defining cause, and the affable Washington senator, known by his childhood nickname Scoop, played his most important role in spurring the country to greater vigilance about the Soviet threat. But his legacy outlasted that conflict, reverberating in American politics into the twenty-first century, for Scoop was the grandfather of neoconservatism. A pundit might even postulate, half-seriously, that the Iraq War began in Jackson’s office.¹ In the early 1970s his office was staffed by young men who would roam the corridors of the White
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