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//-->Praise for“AP R O B L E MF R O MH E L L ”Awards and AccoladesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for the Best Book in NonfictionWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General NonfictionWinner of the National Magazine Award for herAtlantic Monthlyarticle“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 Ameri-can Political or Social Concern That Exemplifies Literary Grace andCommitment to Serious ResearchWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfictionfor Contributing to Our Understanding of Racism and OurAppreciation of the Rich Diversity of Human CultureShort-listed for theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for the Best Book inCurrent InterestShort-listed for the Arthur Ross Book Award for theBest Book in International Affairs(Council on Foreign Relations)Short-listed for the Lionel Gelber Prize for theBest Book in International Relations(Munk Center for International Studies, Canada)Best-of-the-Year and Notable ListsNew York Times Book ReviewThe Atlantic MonthlySan Francisco ChronicleWashington PostChicago TribuneLos Angeles TimesSt. Louis Post-DispatchThe Chronicle of Higher EducationBookmagazineMs.magazineRaleigh News & ObserverKirkus Reviews(starred review)The Globe and Mail(Toronto)Publishers Weekly(starred review)“Forceful. . . . Power tells this long, sorry history with great clarity and vividness.She is particularly good at bringing alive various people who were eyewit-nesses to these catastrophes as they were happening and who tried to makeAmericans share their outrage.”—Adam Hochschild,Washington Post“Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered anew era in international relations must read‘A Problem from Hell.’ . . .Vividlywritten and thoroughly researched.”—Jacob Heilbrun,Los Angeles Times“Power expertly documents American passivity. . . . This vivid and gripping workof American history . . . gives us a Washington that is vibrant, complex, and re-freshingly human.”—Laura Secor,New York Times Book Review“Nothing less than a masterwork of contemporary journalism. . . . Extraordinary.. . . Everybody in the foreign policy apparatus of the American governmentmust read it. . . . An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.”—TheNew Republic“Agonizingly persuasive. . . . The main part of Samantha Power’s extremely im-portant and highly readable book is devoted to the century’s subsequent his-tory of almost unchecked genocide, and the lack of practical response to it, es-pecially in the United States.”—Brian Urquhart,New York Review of Books“Disturbing. . . . Power’s book will likely become the standard text on genocide pre-vention because it thoroughly debunks the usual excuses for past failures, whileoffering a persuasive framework that can help predict future outcomes and suggestpolicy responses. It is also engaging and well written. . . .This should be enough toguarantee that it will be widely read by both students and policy makers.”—Chaim Kaufman,Foreign Affairs“[A] magisterial chronicle. . . . Though clearly imbued with a sense of outrage,Power is judicious in her portraits of those who opposed intervention, andkeenly aware of the perils and costs of military action. Her indictment of U.S.policy is therefore all the more damning.”—TheNew Yorker“It’s one of those rare books that can change one’s thinking. I think it’s going tohave a lasting impact. It’s very painful reading, but it has to be read.”—Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations“[Power] asks us to consider what the obligations of a democratic world power,empire or no, should be. . . . A gripping work of historical analysis written withmuch care . . . that will move and outrage any reader.”—Matthew Price,Chicago Tribune“Does a masterful job of conveying important, clear, and faultlessly non-hystericalinformation and interpretation on so many dark episodes in recent human his-tory. . . . Power does not preach, and she does not pontificate. What she does,gently but insistently, is to prod.”—Steve Kettmann,San Francisco Chronicle“Her book is one of those rare volumes that makes news, that is so original on atopic of such importance that it must be read. . . . Power is such a skillful author—she has produced a book brilliantly conceived, superbly researched, mixing passionand erudition—it must be placed in the ‘must read’ category for both misan-thropes and lovers of humanity, for isolationists and internationalists alike.”—Steve Weinberg,Denver Post“By building [the cases] into a larger story shaped by a compelling argument, shetakes her book beyond journalism to something approaching moral and politi-cal philosophy. . . . Ms. Power sets this expanded American story within a stilllarger, more than American story of the advance of international law. It is herethat her book achieves both its greatest intellectual depth and its most powerfulforward momentum.”—Jack Miles,New York Observer“Samantha Power’s groundbreaking book explores the essential question of whythe United States has so often been slow to respond to clear evidence of geno-cide. Power . . . elegantly makes her case that U.S. government officials not onlyknew of the genocides occurring in Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda butin some cases took steps to cover it up, while other heroic individuals wererisking their careers and lives to stop it.” —Nan Goldberg,Newark Star-Ledger“A superb analysis of the U.S. government’s evident unwillingness to intervenein ethnic slaughter. . . . A well-reasoned argument for the moral necessity ofhalting genocide wherever it occurs, and an unpleasant reminder of our role inenabling it, however unwittingly.”—KirkusReviews(starred review)“The emotional force of Power’s argument is carried by moving, sometimes al-most unbearable stories of the victims and survivors of brutality. . . . This is awell-researched and powerful study that is both a history and a call to action.”—PublishersWeekly(starred review) [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]