A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Power, Samantha

ISBN 10: 0061120146 / ISBN 13: 9780061120145

Published by Harper Perennial, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061120146
• ISBN 13: 9780061120145
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power—a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power provides the answer in "A Problem from Hell," a groundbreaking work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.

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