Peter Balakian is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities and a professor of English at Colgate University, where he was the first director of the Center for Ethics and World Societies. He is the author of the prize-winning memoir Black Dog of Fate. Robert Jay Lifton, one of the most distinguished social critics and psychohistorians writing today, is Visiting Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Roger Smith is a professor of Government at the College of William and Mary and is the president of the Association of Genocide Scholars of North America. Henry Morgenthau III is a retired television producer and writer.
The power of the book to instruct us even now is intimately
connected with not only its truthfulness about the atrocities and
the men behind them, but also the story of how American and other
diplomats, missionaries and relief workers did everything they
could to end the slaughter and to care for the victims. One sees
also the beginning of an American humanitarian outlook in the
creation of an broad support for Near East Relief, which helped to
save the lives of thousands of Armenians.-- "Armenian Weekly"
This book represents one of the central sources on the Armenian
Genocide and remains to this day the primary American document on
the event as authored by a U.S. official. It is in constant use as
a reference and continues to serve as an introductory text to he
global problem of genocide."-- "Rouben Paul Adalain"
This new edition, edited by Peter Balakian, includes a foreword by
the internationally acclaimed scholar Robert Jay Lifton, an
introduction by genocide scholar Roger Smith, and an epilogue by
Henry Morgenthau III, who reflects on his grandfather's life of
philanthropic work as an international humanitarian diplomat.
Morgenthau has also given to this edition previously unpublished
photographs of his grandfathers years in Turkey- extraordinary
images that bring the reader closer to this historic moment.-- "The
Armenian Weekly"
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