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Ledger
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"One of those rare books that can change one's thinking...very
painful reading, but it has to be read.''--Former UN Ambassador
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"Power writes with an admirable mix of erudition and passion...
focuses fiercely on the human costs of indifference and
passivity...."--Stanley Hoffmann, Buttenwieser University
Professor, Harvard University
"Samantha Power has written one of those rare books that is truly
as important as its subject."--Philip Gourevitch, We Wish To Inform
You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from
Rwanda
"The emotional force of Power's argument is carried by moving,
sometimes almost unbearable stories of the victims and
survivors."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This is a moving account of how millions of lives were
lost."--Former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine)
"[A Problem From Hell] challenges our conscience and should
influence what we do in the future.''--Lawrence H. Summers,
President, Harvard University
"[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
"A damning indictment of American passivity in the face of some of
history's worse crimes.--Newsweek International
"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
"A serious and compelling work... should be read by policy makers
everywhere."--Paul M. Kennedy, Dilworth Professor of History and
Director, International Security Studies, Yale University
"A superb analysis of the US government's evident unwillingness to
intervene in ethnic slaughter..."--Kirkus Reviews (starred
review)
"Agonizingly persuasive."--New York Review of Books
"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential
book."--The New Republic
"Avoids partisan finger-pointing [and] is a clarion call for
America to remain an engaged moral power."--Weekly Standard
"Bracing...Power [is] the new conscience of the U.S. foreign-policy
establishment."--Time magazine
"Brilliantly conceived, superbly researched, mixing passion and
erudition--it must be placed in the 'must read' category."--Denver
Post
"Compelling...Power leads her readers on a long and often
gut-wrenching journey.... Power's book raises vital
questions."--Reason
"Disturbing...engaging and well written...will likely become the
standard text on genocide prevention."--Foreign Affairs
"Forceful... Power tells this long, sorry history with great
clarity and vividness."--Washington Post
"Groundbreaking... Power elegantly makes her case."--Newark Star
Ledger
"Magisterial."--The New Yorker
"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
"Power writes with an admirable mix of erudition and passion...
focuses fiercely on the human costs of indifference and
passivity...."--Stanley Hoffmann, Buttenwieser University
Professor, Harvard University
"Samantha Power has written one of those rare books that is truly
as important as its subject."--Philip Gourevitch, We Wish To Inform
You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from
Rwanda
"The emotional force of Power's argument is carried by moving,
sometimes almost unbearable stories of the victims and
survivors."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This is a moving account of how millions of lives were
lost."--Former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine)
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