"a Problem from Hell" America and the Age of Genocide

ISBN-10: 0465061516

ISBN-13: 9780465061518

Edition: N/A

Authors: Samantha Power

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Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail 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…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 12/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface



"Race Murder"



"A Crime Without a Name"



The Crime With a Name



Lemkin's Law



"A Most Lethal Pair of Foes"



Cambodia: "Helpless Giant"



Speaking Loudly and Looking for a Stick



Iraq: "Human Rights and Chemical Weapons Use Aside"



Bosnia: "No More than Witnesses at a Funeral"



Rwanda: "Mostly in a Listening Mode"



Srebrenica: "Getting Creamed"



Kosovo: A Dog and a Fight



Lemkin's Courtroom Legacy



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author