A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide - Brossura

Power, Samantha

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ISBN 10: 0061120146 ISBN 13: 9780061120145

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2007

Riassunto

Discusses America's political stance during the holocausts of the past fifty years, presenting moral arguments for why the United States should change its non-engagement policies to become involved in conflicts involving genocide. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize & the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reissue. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione

“A superb analysis of the US government’s evident unwillingness to intervene in ethnic slaughter...” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

“An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.” (The New Republic)

“Agonizingly persuasive.” (New York Review of Books)

“[A Problem From Hell] challenges our conscience and should influence what we do in the future.’’ (Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University)

“Magisterial.” (The New Yorker)

“Disturbing...engaging and well written...will likely become the standard text on genocide prevention.” (Foreign Affairs)

“Compelling...Power leads her readers on a long and often gut-wrenching journey.... Power’s book raises vital questions.” (Reason)

“[Power] is one of the most striking talents to emerge in the human rights field in a long time.” (Aryeh Neier, founder of Human Rights Watch)

“One of those rare books that can change one’s thinking...very painful reading, but it has to be read.’’ (Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke)

“A history of our country that has never before been told... it should change the way we see America..” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II)

L'autore

Samantha Power is a foreign policy columnist at Time magazine. She is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She is a recipient of the National Magazine Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and she lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061120146
• ISBN 13: 9780061120145
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 688