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A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide / Samantha Power.
Van Pelt Library HV6322.7 .P69 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Power, Samantha, author.
- Series:
- New republic book
- A New Republic book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genocide--History--20th century.
- Genocide.
- History.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Homicide--history.
- Internationality--history.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Homicide--history.
- Internationality--history.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 610 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- "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? 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."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-587) and index.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 2003
- Other Format:
- Online version: Power, Samantha. Problem from hell.
- ISBN:
- 0465061508
- 9780465061501
- 9780465061518
- 0465061516
- 0007172990
- 9780007172993
- OCLC:
- 48221415
- Publisher Number:
- 99805362999
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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