Reviews

"[A Problem From Hell] challenges our conscience and should influence what we do in the future.''--Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University

"[Power] is one of the most striking talents to emerge in the human rights field in a long time."--Aryeh Neier, founder of Human Rights Watch

"A damning indictment of American passivity in the face of some of history's worse crimes.--Newsweek International

"A history of our country that has never before been told... it should change the way we see America.."--Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

"A serious and compelling work... should be read by policy makers everywhere."--Paul M. Kennedy, Dilworth Professor of History and Director, International Security Studies, Yale University

"A superb analysis of the US government's evident unwillingness to intervene in ethnic slaughter..."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Agonizingly persuasive."--New York Review of Books

"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book."--The New Republic

"Avoids partisan finger-pointing [and] is a clarion call for America to remain an engaged moral power."--Weekly Standard

"Bracing...Power [is] the new conscience of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment."--Time magazine

"Brilliantly conceived, superbly researched, mixing passion and erudition--it must be placed in the 'must read' category."--Denver Post

"Compelling...Power leads her readers on a long and often gut-wrenching journey.... Power's book raises vital questions."--Reason

"Disturbing...engaging and well written...will likely become the standard text on genocide prevention."--Foreign Affairs

"Forceful... Power tells this long, sorry history with great clarity and vividness."--Washington Post

"Groundbreaking... Power elegantly makes her case."--Newark Star Ledger

"Magisterial."--The New Yorker

"One of those rare books that can change one's thinking...very painful reading, but it has to be read.''--Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke

"Power writes with an admirable mix of erudition and passion... focuses fiercely on the human costs of indifference and passivity...."--Stanley Hoffmann, Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University

"Samantha Power has written one of those rare books that is truly as important as its subject."--Philip Gourevitch, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

"The emotional force of Power's argument is carried by moving, sometimes almost unbearable stories of the victims and survivors."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"This is a moving account of how millions of lives were lost."--Former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine)

"[A Problem From Hell] challenges our conscience and should influence what we do in the future.''--Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University
"[Power] is one of the most striking talents to emerge in the human rights field in a long time."--Aryeh Neier, founder of Human Rights Watch
"A damning indictment of American passivity in the face of some of history's worse crimes.--Newsweek International
"A history of our country that has never before been told... it should change the way we see America.."--Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
"A serious and compelling work... should be read by policy makers everywhere."--Paul M. Kennedy, Dilworth Professor of History and Director, International Security Studies, Yale University
"A superb analysis of the US government's evident unwillingness to intervene in ethnic slaughter..."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Agonizingly persuasive."--New York Review of Books
"An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book."--The New Republic
"Avoids partisan finger-pointing [and] is a clarion call for America to remain an engaged moral power."--Weekly Standard
"Bracing...Power [is] the new conscience of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment."--Time magazine
"Brilliantly conceived, superbly researched, mixing passion and erudition--it must be placed in the 'must read' category."--Denver Post
"Compelling...Power leads her readers on a long and often gut-wrenching journey.... Power's book raises vital questions."--Reason
"Disturbing...engaging and well written...will likely become the standard text on genocide prevention."--Foreign Affairs
"Forceful... Power tells this long, sorry history with great clarity and vividness."--Washington Post
"Groundbreaking... Power elegantly makes her case."--Newark Star Ledger
"Magisterial."--The New Yorker
"One of those rare books that can change one's thinking...very painful reading, but it has to be read.''--Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke
"Power writes with an admirable mix of erudition and passion... focuses fiercely on the human costs of indifference and passivity...."--Stanley Hoffmann, Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University
"Samantha Power has written one of those rare books that is truly as important as its subject."--Philip Gourevitch, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
"The emotional force of Power's argument is carried by moving, sometimes almost unbearable stories of the victims and survivors."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This is a moving account of how millions of lives were lost."--Former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine)