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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By Samantha Power
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By Samantha Power
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!

An impassioned critique of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world, from a New York Times bestselling author and former US Ambassador to the UN.

"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book." -New Republic

In her Pulitzer Prize-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, former Ambassador and current Harvard professor Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never agai...

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