""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 marhsal 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."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

"On March 14, 1921, on a damp day in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, a twenty-four-year-old Armenian crept up behind a man in a heavy gray overcoat swinging his cane."

Edition Notes

Published in

New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class

304.6/63/09

Library of Congress

HV6322.7 .P69 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination

xxi, 610 p. :

Number of pages

610

Edition Identifiers

Open Library

OL7593864M

ISBN 10

0465061508

LCCN

2001052611

OCLC/WorldCat

48221415

LibraryThing

8581643

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457125

Work Identifiers

Work ID

OL264876W

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