A Problem from Hell

America and the Age of Genocide

By: Samantha Power

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power—a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power provides the answer in A Problem from Hell, a groundbreaking work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.

© 2002 by Samantha Power. ℗ 2012 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

history lessons to learn not repeat

worthy topic and thorough work by the audit author. listen then send it to your friends.

Important to acknowledge

Geez, depressing reading how often the story repeats itself. Also depressing thinking about society’s response in the actual event’s time periods. however based on my own response to some of these atrocities at the time, the countries apathetic response isn’t necessarily intentional. While it’s sad seeing how this repeatedly unfolds I think it’s important to acknowledge and hopefully learn from.

Definitely worth a listen/read

A very good perspective of genocide in various countries. And the history behind why US did not intervene or did very little to intervene.

Where is this woman now that it matters?

This book is excellent, but sadly, once she had the chance to change the world, she became a despot like all the rest. Words are for despots and treason is for those with ill intentions.

The book is everything a person ought to stand for; platitudes, culture, a rich knowledge of history and what it means to be the very best of us- and when I say, “us,” I mean, a human being.

Now that Samantha Power is in a position, in government, where her words carry weight, and her pen is mightier than the sword, she wreaks havoc and commits atrocities like the very men she criticizes in this book; worse, in fact. … Where are the missing children? More than 200,000 children have gone missing - look to the hearings in the Senate, these are not false claims! The UN is responsible for running smuggling children, running drugs, selling guns, and systematic rape of women and children in country after country.

WHERE ARE YOU SAMANTHA POWERS? GOD AND THE DEVIL ARE WATCHING! Who gets to claim your soul?

Comprehensive

The thorough analytical style of research and telling was very impressive in Powers’ narrative. I greatly appreciated her insight into the workings of the US govn’t from Lemkin’s crusade through George W Bush.