Elizabeth (Kopelman) Borgwardt is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Introduction: Charting a New Course for Human Rights Part I: Somewhere in the Atlantic, August 1941 1. The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson 2. Forging a New American Multilateralism Part II: Bretton Woods, July 1944 3. The Perils of Economic Planning 4. Investing in Global Stability Part III: San Francisco, June 1945 5. The Chimera of Collective Security 6. Learning to Work Together by Working Together Part IV: Nuremberg, August 1945 7. The Limits of Law 8. Internationalizing New Deal Justice Part V: America in the World 9. Forgotten Legacies of the Atlantic Charter 10. An Expanding Vision of the National Interest Atlantic Charter Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Borgwardt's meticulously researched study shows how a few war-inspired phrases from Churchill and Roosevelt metamorphosed into moral principles that transformed overseas empire and domestic racism from facts of life into scandals demanding attention. Every reader of U.S. history and international relations will have to confront the evidence presented in this learned, surprising, and indispensable book, which demonstrates the profound--and unanticipated--consequences of the ideas of security, justice, and human rights in shaping power politics in the postwar world.

Elizabeth (Kopelman) Borgwardt is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Introduction: Charting a New Course for Human Rights Part I: Somewhere in the Atlantic, August 1941 1. The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson 2. Forging a New American Multilateralism Part II: Bretton Woods, July 1944 3. The Perils of Economic Planning 4. Investing in Global Stability Part III: San Francisco, June 1945 5. The Chimera of Collective Security 6. Learning to Work Together by Working Together Part IV: Nuremberg, August 1945 7. The Limits of Law 8. Internationalizing New Deal Justice Part V: America in the World 9. Forgotten Legacies of the Atlantic Charter 10. An Expanding Vision of the National Interest Atlantic Charter Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Borgwardt's meticulously researched study shows how a few war-inspired phrases from Churchill and Roosevelt metamorphosed into moral principles that transformed overseas empire and domestic racism from facts of life into scandals demanding attention. Every reader of U.S. history and international relations will have to confront the evidence presented in this learned, surprising, and indispensable book, which demonstrates the profound--and unanticipated--consequences of the ideas of security, justice, and human rights in shaping power politics in the postwar world.

Elizabeth (Kopelman) Borgwardt is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Introduction: Charting a New Course for Human Rights Part I: Somewhere in the Atlantic, August 1941 1. The Ghost of Woodrow Wilson 2. Forging a New American Multilateralism Part II: Bretton Woods, July 1944 3. The Perils of Economic Planning 4. Investing in Global Stability Part III: San Francisco, June 1945 5. The Chimera of Collective Security 6. Learning to Work Together by Working Together Part IV: Nuremberg, August 1945 7. The Limits of Law 8. Internationalizing New Deal Justice Part V: America in the World 9. Forgotten Legacies of the Atlantic Charter 10. An Expanding Vision of the National Interest Atlantic Charter Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Borgwardt's meticulously researched study shows how a few war-inspired phrases from Churchill and Roosevelt metamorphosed into moral principles that transformed overseas empire and domestic racism from facts of life into scandals demanding attention. Every reader of U.S. history and international relations will have to confront the evidence presented in this learned, surprising, and indispensable book, which demonstrates the profound--and unanticipated--consequences of the ideas of security, justice, and human rights in shaping power politics in the postwar world.