(Paperback)

The idea of human rights is relatively recent, coming out of a post-World War II effort to draw nations together and prevent or lesson suffering. [The book] introduces children to the true stories of 20 real people who invented and fought for these ideas"--

(Paperback)

The only contemporary history of Colombia and the drug war and "a vividly written and often mesmerizing first-hand account of the violence" --The Wall Street Journal