Annotation
A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans .
Awards
2002 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
2002 National Book Critics Circle Awards
2003 Pulitzer Prize
2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
2003 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
2003 Arthur Ross Book Awards
2003 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Author Notes
Samantha Power teaches human rights and U.S. foreign policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. From 1993 to 1996 Power reported on the wars in the former Yugoslavia for the Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic. She is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. Born in 1970, Power emigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, and she lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts.
Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
| Genre | NonFiction History |
| Topics | Genocide Mass murder American foreign relations American foreign policy U.S. presidents U.S. secretaries of state Global politics Security, International International relations International politics International treaties United Nations U.S. senators |
| Setting | International |