A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner 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...
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Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060541644 (0060541644)
Publish date: May 1st 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 620
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Africa,
War,
Politics,
American History,
World War II,
Political Science,
Holocaust,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
This book was a serious, but very easy to understand, read. I say it was tough, but it is not necessarily the writing, more the subject matter. It is hard to read about genocide no matter how nicely it is written about. I thought this book was a great overview of how US foreign policy has reacted to...