A New Deal for the World examines how American wartime planners created the institutional architecture of modern international human rights. Elizabeth Borgwardt, a historian at Washington University in St. Louis, traces four interconnected developments: the Atlantic Charter's articulation of war aims, the Bretton Woods monetary agreements, the establishment of the United Nations, and the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals. She argues that these initiatives represented a coherent vision for a rules-based international order rooted in New Deal principles of economic security and legal accountability. Borgwardt recovers the idealism that animated American policymakers who believed they could extend domestic reforms to the global stage, creating institutions that would prevent both the economic nationalism that bred the Depression and the militarism that caused the war. The book reveals how concepts we now take for granted—international human rights, multilateral economic cooperation, the prosecution of crimes against humanity—emerged from specific debates and compromises during a moment of unprecedented American power. Yet Borgwardt also examines the limitations and contradictions in this vision, particularly regarding colonialism and racial equality. Her work illuminates both the achievements and the unfulfilled promises of America's mid-century internationalism.