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''A problem from hell'': America and the age of genocide by Basic Books.;Power, Samantha is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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From former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world 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, 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 and'an angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book'(New Republic),'A Problem from Hell'has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winne

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Author
Basic Books.;Power, Samantha
Publisher
Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780465061518
Category
history
Subjects
Science, Political Science, History
Rating
4.22 / 5 (105 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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