Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction\n‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES\n‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER\n‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making’ PHILIP GOUREVITCH 
Why do leaders who vow ‘never again’ repeatedly fail to prevent genocide?\nIn her award-winning modern classic, Samantha Power presents a deeply researched and powerfully argued answer to this haunting question. Disproving claims that successive American leaders were unaware of genocidal horrors occurring around the world, Power tells the stories of courageous individuals who risked their careers and lives in an effort to save others, revealing how policy makers and outsiders alike ignored chilling warnings and rationalised inaction. A riveting account, A Problem From Hell has forever reshaped debates about foreign policy, while inspiring a new generation to raise their voices in the face of contemporary injustice.

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of

Samantha Power

William Collins

Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Penguin??Books

Sergio Vieira de Mello-a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder -was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 as the battle lines in the twenty first-century's first great polarizing struggle were being drawn. This is a dual biography: the story of a man who never stopped learning and the biography of a perilous world whose ills are too big to ignore but too complex to manage quickly or cheaply. Even as Vieira de Mello arranged food deliveries, organized refugee returns, or negotiated with warlords, he pressed his colleagues to join him in grappling with such questions as: When should killers be engaged and when should they be shunned? When is military force justified? How can outsiders play a role in healing broken people and broken places? He did not have the luxury of simply posing these questions; he had to find answers, apply them, and live with the consequences.

Allen Lane.

In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power—a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power provides the answer in A Problem from Hell, a groundbreaking work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.

Problem from Hell, A

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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En pos de la flama: la lucha de un hombre por salvar el mundo (Spanish Edition)

Fondo De Cultura Economica USA

Sergio Vieira de Mello foi um dos mais corajosos e carismaticos diplomatas de sua geracao. Carioca, viu-se obrigado a viver fora do pais a partir dos dezessete anos de idade, quando seu pai, tambem diplomata, foi punido pelo regime militar brasileiro.Muito jovem, tornou-se funcionario da Organizacao das Nacoes Unidas, com cujos ideais sempre teve grande afinidade. Diferentemente da maioria de seus colegas com formacao universitaria e aspiracoes intelectuais, preferia ir ao campo de acao em vez de exercer cargos burocraticos em Nova York.Em situacoes especialmente dramaticas como a de Ruanda, que terminou em uma das mais graves crises humanitarias do seculo xx, e a do Timor Leste, que culminou em bem-sucedida transicao para a independencia , Vieira de Mello conseguiu contrabalancar seus principios juvenis, moldados nas ruas de Paris em maio de 1968, com os da politica e das relacoes internacionais.Esse fascinante personagem, ja descrito como uma mistura de James Bond com Bobby Kennedy, e analisado a fundo nesta biografia de Samantha Power, outra jovem figura da mais alta relevancia na teoria e pratica da politica internacional. Sem abandonar o espirito critico, Power descreve a vida de Vieira de Mello em detalhes e com inegavel simpatia, mostrando como a experiencia do diplomata nos massacres da Bosnia e de Ruanda alteraram sua visao de mundo. A partir deles, ele, que achava possivel transformar situacoes dificeis a base quase exclusivamente do poder das ideias, passou a considerar tambem essencial, no limite, o uso de forca militar para impor a paz.Foi dessa maneira que Vieira de Mello assumiu a dificil posicao de chefe da missao da onu no Iraque apos a invasao americana, num momento em que o governo dos Estados Unidos e seus representantes em Bagda ainda consideravam a onu mais um empecilho do que um aliado (depois, com o fracasso incontestavel das politicas de ocupacao, essa atitude mudaria radicalmente).

Homem Que Queria Salvar O Mundo (Em Portugues do Brasil)

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Educated By Tara Westover and The Education of an Idealist [Hardcover] By Samantha Power Books Collection Set

Tara Westover

Memoirs

Random House Trade Paperbacks/Dey Street Books Ltd

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: Educated Tara Westover and Education of an Idealist 2 Books Collection Set: Educated: Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn't exist. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in hospitals. The Education of an Idealist: The Education of an Idealist combines powerful storytelling, vividly drawn characters and deep political insight. It traces Power's journey from childhood growing up in a pub in Ireland to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected Senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign.

Educated Tara Westover and Education of an Idealist [Hardcover] 2 Books Collection Set

William Collins/Windmill Books

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