A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Name: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Author: Samantha Power
ISBN: 9780465050895

Samantha Power

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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

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A Problem from Hell won the Pulitzer Prize, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Raphael Lemkin Award. 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 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.

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