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A review by jameshendrickson
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
5.0
Moving, eye-opening, & powerful
I would never expect a book on genocide to be riveting AND powerfully convicting. Reading this after Ms. Power was UN Ambassador is even more impressive because she was willing to take a job to prevent the next wave of atrocities (or risk public hypocrisy if she failed to do so) after writing a book so damning of the inaction of her predecessors. I highly recommend this book to gain a better understanding of the horror that can occur when Americans take an isolationist view of the world.
I would never expect a book on genocide to be riveting AND powerfully convicting. Reading this after Ms. Power was UN Ambassador is even more impressive because she was willing to take a job to prevent the next wave of atrocities (or risk public hypocrisy if she failed to do so) after writing a book so damning of the inaction of her predecessors. I highly recommend this book to gain a better understanding of the horror that can occur when Americans take an isolationist view of the world.