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
| 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 |