num_pages: 620
description: Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the worldIn her Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Power, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields to provide the answer. "A Problem from Hell" shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. A modern classic, "A Problem from Hell" has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy.
language: English
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: History, World History, International Relations, American History, Social Justice, War, Politics, Political Science, Africa, Nonfiction
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: Basic Books