A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide - Softcover

Power, Samantha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061120146 ISBN 13: 9780061120145

Publisher: Perennial, 2007

Synopsis

Discusses America's political stance during the holocausts of the past fifty years, presenting moral arguments for why the United States should change its non-engagement policies to become involved in conflicts involving genocide. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize & the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reissue. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book. "The New Republic"
Magisterial. "The New Yorker"
Disturbing...engaging and well writtenwill likely become the standard text on genocide prevention. "Foreign Affairs"
Forceful. Power tells this long, sorry history with great clarity and vividness. "Washington Post""

"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book."--The New Republic

"Magisterial."--The New Yorker

"Disturbing...engaging and well written...will likely become the standard text on genocide prevention."--Foreign Affairs

"Forceful.... Power tells this long, sorry history with great clarity and vividness."--Washington Post

"Magisterial."--New Yorker

"Disturbing...engaging and well written...will likely become the standard text on genocide prevention."--Foreign Affairs

"Forceful.... Power tells this long, sorry history with great clarity and vividness."--Washington Post

"Amazingly persuasive."--New York Review of Books

"Bracing.... Power [is] the new conscience of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment."--Time

Book Description:

"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book."-The New Republic

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061120146
• ISBN 13: 9780061120145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 597