/ Includes PS Section A shattering history of the last hundred years of genocidal war which won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2003. / Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and the US National Book Critics Circle Award, 'A Problem From Hell' is a stunning investigation into the history of genocidal war from award-winning author Samantha Power. /A highly relevant and important book to remind us of some essential lessons that can be learnt from the last hundred years of history. / Includes material taken from private papers, unprecedented interviews and the author's own reporting onsite. / Competition: Gourevich's We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Bizot's The Gate, Stupid White Men, From the Land of Green Ghosts
Samantha Power founded the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and is now a faculty affiliate. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in Yugoslavia as a reporter for US News and the Economist. A native of Ireland, she moved to the US in 1979 at the age of nine, and graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School.
'Fascinating. An important book, a superb piece of reporting which cumulatively grows into a major political work, part polemic, part moral philosophy.' Observer 'Deeply researched and trenchantly argued. A devastating indictment not just of the American foreign policy establishment but of the country's entire political class, the media and even the wider public.' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times 'Power is part of an inspiring generation of political thinkers who are academically brilliant but who also know how to write.' David Hare, Book of the Year, Observer 'An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.' The New Republic
'Fascinating. An important book, a superb piece of reporting which cumulatively grows into a major political work, part polemic, part moral philosophy.' Observer 'Deeply researched and trenchantly argued. A devastating indictment not just of the American foreign policy establishment but of the country's entire political class, the media and even the wider public.' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times 'Power is part of an inspiring generation of political thinkers who are academically brilliant but who also know how to write.' David Hare, Book of the Year, Observer 'An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.' The New Republic
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