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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2003 A shattering history of the last hundred years of genocidal war that itemises in authoritative, ...Show synopsisWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2003 A shattering history of the last hundred years of genocidal war that itemises in authoritative, persuasive manner exactly what the West knew and when, and what it chose to do, and what not to do, with that knowledge. Winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award 'The United States has never in its history intervened to stop genocide and has in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred.' In this convincing and definitive interrogation of the last century of American history and foreign policy, Samantha Power draws upon declassified documents, private papers, unprecedented interviews and her own reporting from the modern killing fields to tell the story of American indifference and American courage in the face of man's inhumanity to man. Tackling the argument that successive US leaders were unaware of genocidal horrors as they were occurring - against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Kurds, Rwandans, Bosnians - Samantha Power seeks to establish precisely how much was known and when, and claims that much human misery and tragedy could readily have been averted. It is clear that the failure to intervene was usually caused not by ignorance or impotence, but by considered political inaction. Several heroic figures did work to oppose and expose ethnic cleansing as it took place, but the majority of American politicians chose always to do nothing, as did the American public: Power notes that 'no US president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on.' This riveting book makes a powerful case for why America, as both sole superpower and global citizen, must make such indifference a thing of the past.Hide synopsis
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Brilliance Corporation) – Audiobook CD (2012)
by
Samantha Power, Joyce Bean (Performed by)
Audiobook CD, Brilliance Corporation 2012
English
ISBN: 1455879991 ISBN-13: 9781455879991
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 ...Show moreIn 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 courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to actHide
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The comedian Eddie Izzard, in his "Dress to Kill" performance, manages to have a very funny but biting look at genocide, saying, among other things, that we don't seem to have a problem with governments killing their own people. "We've been trying to kill you for years," he cracks.
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