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"A Problem from Hell"

America and the Age of Genocide

By Samantha Power

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| Paperback | 9780060541644

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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 RigContinue

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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  • Remembering Richard Holbrooke

    In the spring of 1991 Strobe Talbott, who would become deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, visited Richard Holbrooke at his weekend home in Connecticut. After playing tennis and going for a swim, they had brunch at a neighbor’s h ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 31 Dec 2011

  • Too little, too late

    A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power 656pp, Flamingo, £9.99 We Did Nothing by Linda Polman 234pp, Viking, £12.99 The debate about why it is so difficult to get the governments of rich and powerful countries to do anything effective about massacre, p ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 656 Pages
  • Edition: 1st Perenn
  • ISBN-10: 0060541644
  • ISBN-13: 9780060541644
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Pub date: May 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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