A Problem from Hell

America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power

This study of genocide in the 20th century examines America's pattern of reluctance to intervene--including in the Holocaust, in Cambodia, and in Bosnia. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Editions of A Problem from Hell

	ISBN 9780465061501	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Perseus Books Group	Date 2002	Price $6.50	Good
	ISBN 9780060541644	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 2003	Price $3.39	Very Good

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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 courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.