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A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide / Samantha Power.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0465061508
ISBN: 9780465061501
ISBN: 9780060541644
ISBN: 0060541644
Physical Description: xxi, 610 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-587) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- "Race murder" -- "A crime without a name" -- 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 -- Conclusion.