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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide.

The New Yorker

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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power (Basic; $30). In the wake of the Holocaust, United States policymakers have been rhetorically committed to the idea of preventing genocide, and yet they have consistently failed to back up their words with actions. Although Power begins her magisterial chronicle of failure with the Turkish extermination of the Armenians during the First World War, she concentrates on America's recent reluctance to intervene in the mass slaughter of civilians in ...

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