“A Problem from Hell”

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Raphael Lemkin Award

“Magisterial.”

“Forceful .... Power tells this long, sorry history with great clarity and vividness.”

“Amazingly persuasive.”

“Bracing .... Power [is] the new conscience of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment.”

“An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.”

“Disturbing ... engaging and well written ... will likely become the standard text on genocide prevention.”

“Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered a new era in international relations must read ‘A Problem from Hell.’ … Vividly written and thoroughly researched.”

“[Power] asks us to consider what the obligations of a democratic world power, empire or no, should be …. A gripping work of historical analysis written with much care … that will move and outrage any reader.”

“Does a masterful job of conveying important, clear, and faultlessly non-hysterical information and interpretation on so many dark episodes in recent human history …. Power does not preach, and she does not pontificate. What she does, gently but insistently, is to prod.”

“The myriad horror stories of this age of genocide have many ugly characters, several of whom Power profiles in her well-written and extensively documented book.”

“Her book is one of those rare volumes that makes news, that is so original on a topic of such importance that it must be read …. Power is such a skillful author—she has produced a book brilliantly conceived, superbly researched, mixing passion and erudition—it must be placed in the ‘must read’ category for both misanthropes and lovers of humanity, for isolationists and internationalists alike.”

“A towering history of the inadequacy of American responses to genocide …. The challenge is to make genocide real for the American public. Power’s own work is an important contribution to that effort, and deserves a wide reading.”

“Samantha Power has written one of those rare books that will not only endure as an authoritative history but is a timely and important contribution to a critical policy debate.”

“Makes important contributions to our understanding of today’s international turbulence and uncertainty …. Fascinating and disturbing.”

“Power’s critique of American policy is devastating and fully substantiated by the evidence she brings to bear.”

“A superb piece of reporting which cumulatively grows into a major political work, part polemic, part moral philosophy … Power’s book makes a major contribution to that debate and is required reading for anyone inclined to take part.”

“Substantial and highly impressive.”

“Makes important contributions to our understanding of today’s international turbulence and uncertainty …. Fascinating and disturbing.”

“The emotional force of Power’s argument is carried by moving, sometimes almost unbearable stories of the victims and survivors.”

“A superb analysis of the US government’s evident unwillingness to intervene in ethnic slaughter.”