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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power |
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GENOCIDE UNITED STATES_FOREIGN RELATIONS_20TH CENTURY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A Character-Driven Study Of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, & Rwandans. ''A Problem from Hell' is a path-breaking interrogation of the last century of American history. Samantha Power poses a question that haunts our nation's past: Why do American leaders who vow 'never again' repeatedly fail to marhsal the will and the might to stop genocide? She provides the answer in the form of the suspenseful story of courageous individuals who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, access to thousands of pages of newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power shows how those who urged U.S. action were thwarted again and again by ignorance, indifference, and, above all, a failure of imagination.'--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved In this work of social history, Power examines how, since the Holocaust, Americans have very rarely marshalled their might to stop genocide and mass terror. It makes a moral argument for why America must renew its vigilance against genocide. When and why America failed to prevent or stop the 20th-century genocides of Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans Samantha Power is the executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. A former Balkan war correspondent and a graduate of Harvard Law School, she lives in Winthrop, Masschusetts |
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