Fascinating, passionate, and damning in equal measure, A Problem from Hell is an indictment against the prevailing attitudes in the USA (and much of the west) towards genocide throughout the twentieth century. From the Turkish massacres of the Armenians, through to the Serbian butchery in Kosovo, Power examines the ways in which American politicians have paid lip-service to opposing genocide, . "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 marshal the will and the might to stop genocide? "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide is a book by American Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, which explores the United States's understanding of, response to, and inaction on genocides in the 20th century, from the Armenian genocide to the "ethnic cleansings" of the Kosovo War. It won the J. .
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of www.doorway.ru Samantha Power. (New York: Basic Books, xxiv, pp. $, ISBN ). "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. In 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? "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power (Basic Books) Share: Twitter Facebook Email Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger presents Samantha Power with the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
"A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide A New Republic book Human rights cases online: Author: Samantha Power: Publisher: Basic Books, ISBN: , Length. "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 marshal the will and the might 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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