A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Author(s): Samantha Power

SECONDHAND BOOKS | POLITICS

Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the worldIn her Pulitzer Prize-winning 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, "A Problem from Hell" has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy.Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the Raphael Lemkin Award

2003. A fine, unmarked copy.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780060541644
  • : HarperCollins
  • : Harper Perennial
  • : 0.498952
  • : April 2003
  • : 1.11 Inches X 5.11 Inches X 8.11 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : xxiv, 620
  • : good-very good
  • : 304.6/63/09
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Samantha Power