William F. Schulz
Autore di In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All
Sull'Autore
William F. Schulz is Executive Director of Amnesty International (USA) and is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and is Chair of the Board of Meadville/Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago.
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- Sesso
- male
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Humanist of the Year (2000)
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- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 368
- Popolarità
- #65,433
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 18
Then he felt the heat from below. People who volunteered or were employed with AI seemed to him to be abnormally acrimonious. Haters in America often hate America. Schulz listened to people he'd hired for "diversity" reasons, alienated supporters by wanting to work on same-sex marriage instead of humane treatment for prisoners, then criticized the War on Terror in a horribly effective way. The effects were to reduce the popularity of the US in other countries that had AI chapters, and to reduce the popularity of AI in the US. As a denouement he developed a slowly progressing fatal disease, giving his memoir the structure of a tragedy--but he seems to be denying the tragedy, and remains bland, pleasant, and optimistic to the end.
The question is whether people should read this book for the history and celebrity trivia alone, or are prepared to read it as a cautionary piece of history. I recommended it as a cautionary piece of history, but it'd be worth reading for the celebrity gossip, too.… (altro)