A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power (hardcover)

In her award-winning interrogation of twentieth-century American history, which opens with an enlightening chapter about the Armenian Genocide, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leader who vow “never again” repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington’s top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Power provides the answer in A Problem from Hell—a work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.