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A review by malloryhardesty
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
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“The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,”
A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power takes the time to call out the hypocrisy of the United Stats in
its inaction when dealing with international crisis. This book starts with the Holocaust, going through every genocide since the invention of the word in the 1940s and explaining how the United States has disregarded and even excused their inaction. Power covers six genocides over the course of this book and in every single one of them the United States has justified their inaction or substituted real action for efforts that proved to be mostly useless. Power creates a compelling narrative throughout the course of this book, and does an excellent jobs of naming names and showing who she thinks the true villains of these stories are. As always, thank you for listening.
A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power takes the time to call out the hypocrisy of the United Stats in
its inaction when dealing with international crisis. This book starts with the Holocaust, going through every genocide since the invention of the word in the 1940s and explaining how the United States has disregarded and even excused their inaction. Power covers six genocides over the course of this book and in every single one of them the United States has justified their inaction or substituted real action for efforts that proved to be mostly useless. Power creates a compelling narrative throughout the course of this book, and does an excellent jobs of naming names and showing who she thinks the true villains of these stories are. As always, thank you for listening.