“A Problem from Hell”
America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power
Harper Perennial
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This edition published by Harper Perennial 2007
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First published in Great Britain by Flamingo in 2003
First published in the US by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Book Group
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction 2003
Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 2003
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction
Winner of the National Magazine Award for her Atlantic Monthly article “Bystanders to Genocide”
Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Award (Institute for the Study of Genocide)
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for the Best Book on American Political or Social Concern That Exemplifies Literary Grace and Commitment to Serious Research
Short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the Best Book in Current Interest
Short-listed for the Arthur Ross Book Award for the Best Book in International Affairs (Council on Foreign Relations)
Short-listed for the Lionel Gelber Prize for the Best Book in International Relations (Munk Center for International Studies, Canada)
Winner of the National Magazine Award for her New Yorker article “Dying in Darfur”
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 “A Crime Without a Name”
Chapter 3 The Crime With a Name
Chapter 5 “A Most Lethal Pair of Foes”
Chapter 6 Cambodia: “Helpless Giant”
Chapter 7 Speaking Loudly and Looking for a Stick
Chapter 8 Iraq: “Human Rights and Chemical Weapons Use Aside”
Chapter 9 Bosnia: “No More than Witnesses at a Funeral”
Chapter 10 Rwanda: “Mostly in a Listening Mode”
Chapter 11 Srebrenica:“Getting Creamed”
Chapter 12 Kosovo: A Dog and a Fight
Chapter 13 Lemkin’s Courtroom Legacy