Winner 2006 Merle Curti Award, Sponsored by the Organization of American Historians Co-Winner 2006 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of "war