num_pages: 656
description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making’ PHILIP GOUREVITCH Why do leaders who vow ‘never again’ repeatedly fail to prevent genocide?In her award-winning modern classic, Samantha Power presents a deeply researched and powerfully argued answer to this haunting question. Disproving claims that successive American leaders were unaware of genocidal horrors occurring around the world, Power tells the stories of courageous individuals who risked their careers and lives in an effort to save others, revealing how policy makers and outsiders alike ignored chilling warnings and rationalised inaction. A riveting account, A Problem From Hell has forever reshaped debates about foreign policy, while inspiring a new generation to raise their voices in the face of contemporary injustice.
title: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
titlecomplete: A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
characters: Raphaël Lemkin
genres: Political Science, Politics, Social Justice, Africa, World History, International Relations, American History, War, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 10254
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Arthur Ross Book Award
category: Gold Medal, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Harper Perennial GB