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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
From former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world In her prizewinning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Power, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields to provide the answer. "A Problem from Hell" shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings, and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. A modern classic and "an angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book" (New Republic), "A Problem from Hell" has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Award
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Award
Book Details
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publish Date: Dec 24th, 2013
- Pages: 656
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.18in - 6.31in - 1.67in - 1.54lb
- EAN: 9780465061518
- Categories: • United States - 20th Century• Security (National & International)• Genocide & War Crimes
About the Author
Samantha Power is a professor of practice at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. She served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, and a freelance war correspondent. Power is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist. She lives in Massachusetts.
Praise for this book
"Magisterial."--New Yorker
"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book."--The New Republic
"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