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- catalog abstract ""The Courage of Strangers is the 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." "After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world." "In The Courage of Strangers, Laber tells how she became a founder and the executive director of Helsinki Watch, which grew to be Human Rights Watch, one of the world's most influential organizations. She helped invent a new form of advocacy: that of the human rights investigator, both journalist and scholar with a passionate belief in freedom and justice. Laber describes her secret trips across closed borders, where she met with some of the most courageous activists and dissidents of the time - Vaclav Havel, Yuri Orlov, Andrei Sakharov, Adam Michnik, Rita Klimova, Sergei Kovalev, and Larisa Bogoraz; her portraits of them reveal the human story behind the political headlines."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12501024.
- catalog contributor b12501025.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""The Courage of Strangers is the 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." "After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world." "In The Courage of Strangers, Laber tells how she became a founder and the executive director of Helsinki Watch, which grew to be Human Rights Watch, one of the world's most influential organizations. She helped invent a new form of advocacy: that of the human rights investigator, both journalist and scholar with a passionate belief in freedom and justice. Laber describes her secret trips across closed borders, where she met with some of the most courageous activists and dissidents of the time - Vaclav Havel, Yuri Orlov, Andrei Sakharov, Adam Michnik, Rita Klimova, Sergei Kovalev, and Larisa Bogoraz; her portraits of them reveal the human story behind the political headlines."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Preface / Václav Havel -- Prologue -- pt. I. Rooted -- pt. II. On my own (1977-1981) -- pt. III. A movement takes shape (1981-1985) -- pt. IV. New thinking, new tactics (1985-1988) -- pt. V. Beyond our wildest dreams (1989-1991) -- Epilogue.".
- catalog extent "405 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Courage of strangers.".
- catalog identifier "1586480146 (hc.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Courage of strangers.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Public Affairs,".
- catalog relation "Courage of strangers.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "303.48/4/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "HQ1413.L33 A3 2002".
- catalog subject "Laber, Jeri.".
- catalog subject "Women human rights workers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women human rights workers United States.".
- catalog subject "Women social reformers United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface / Václav Havel -- Prologue -- pt. I. Rooted -- pt. II. On my own (1977-1981) -- pt. III. A movement takes shape (1981-1985) -- pt. IV. New thinking, new tactics (1985-1988) -- pt. V. Beyond our wildest dreams (1989-1991) -- Epilogue.".
- catalog title "The courage of strangers : coming of age with the human rights movement / Jeri Laber ; with a preface by Václav Havel.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".