The courage of strangers : coming of age with the human rights movement / Jeri Laber ; preface by Václav Havel.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Laber, Jeri.

Contributor:

• Sakharov Library Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Laber, Jeri.
• Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
• Women social reformers.
• Women human rights workers.
• United States.
• Women human rights workers--United States--Biography.
• Women human rights workers--United States.

Genre:

• Biographies.
• Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

• Yankelevich, Tatiana (donor)
• Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989 (former owner)

Physical Description:

405 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Public Affairs, [2002]

Summary:

The intimate, beautifully told memoir of a woman who helped create Human Rights Watch and bring about the fall of Communism--and in the process became free and independent herself.

Contents:

• Part I Rooted 5
• Part II On My Own (1977-1981) 91
• Part III A Movement Takes Shape (1981-1985) 165
• Part IV New Thinking, New Tactics (1985-1988) 245
• Part V Beyond Our Wildest Dreams (1989-1991 307.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

• Presented to the Penn Libraries by Tatiana Yankelevich in honor of Dr. Andreĭ Sakharov.
• Sakharov Library Collection copy signed by author.

ISBN:

1586480146

OCLC:

48767495