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Summary: Great book.
Review: A great book that goes over a genocide that is hardly talked about, I reccomend everyone reading this.
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Summary: WOW!!!!!! Excellent book
Review: This book was fantastic. I loved the way that how Powers' went into detail of all the Genocides that have occurred, especially the ones that are being denied by the perpetrators. I read this book for my Comparative Genocide class and it was a wonderful source for my papers. I recommend this book to anyone interested in knowing the TRUTH.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: I truly found the book to be fascinating especially since I did not know much about most of the genocides mentioned in the book. It was definitely a good read and I recommend the book to everyone!
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Summary: The book based on truth
Review: This book is magnificent. It tells the truth about history without any political agendas. It clearly depicts what truly took place in history.
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Summary: A riveting analysis, an important subject...
Review: Outstanding. This book is frightening to two types of humanity: the normal, who find it difficult to believe that their contemporaries were - are - capable of the unspeakable, and the revisionists who would deny the undeniable under the aegis of "controversy." Ms. Power demonstrates to her readers just how inhumane modern man has been - and can yet be. Hopefully, her efforts and those of others of good will not be lost on the world. An eminently readable, horrifying journey. Worth every penny.
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Summary: A disturbing but essential history.
Review: This is a heartbreakingly painful book to read. It took me almost a month to get through it because I simply couldnÕt stand to read more than a small bit at a time. Yes, there are heroes and heroines here -- people who strove again and again to save victims of genocide. But if youÕre anything like me, when you finish "A Problem From Hell" you will know far more about how monstrously human beings can behave than you want to believe. "Evil" seems too mild a word to describe it. And you will also see what in some ways is even worse -- the ease with which "good" people can ignore mass murder.Nevertheless, as difficult as it is to read, this is an important, extremely well-researched, and clearly and concisely-written book, and IÕd recommend it highly (even urgently) to anyone who has an interest in American foreign policy. And even those who think they don't. At the end of World War II, the world swore that "never again" would we stand by while millions were slaughtered. Samantha Power deals with selected post-war examples of times when the world failed to live up to that promise -- in Cambodia, Iraq, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, it would be easy to add several more to her list. In fact, sheÕs been criticized -- from both the right and left -- for some examples she left out of the analysis. However, I feel strongly that her focus on the four late twentieth century genocides makes this a better book than it otherwise would have been. The limited number of examples allows Power to explore deeply both the differences and the similarities between these genocides. The differences are important because so often that is what both the press and the government focus on. We misinterpreted the genocide in Cambodia because the Khmer Rouge was not murdering members of an ethnic group, but political and class enemies. Saddam Hussein targeted an ethnic group -- the Kurds -- but the Kurds were rebelling against the government at that time, so it was possible to view the situation as more an overly harsh attempt to put down a rebellion than as a genocide. But, as Power shows, focusing on how each example was different from the Holocaust was less a misunderstanding than it was an excuse for inaction. There are plenty of other excuses. We canÕt be sure if the victimsÕ stories are accurate. We see the victims fight back and think they are just as guilty as the perpetrators. We are worried that acting may create more problems than it solves. But mostly it just comes down to this: most Americans are not very interested in what goes on outside our country and no politician has ever been voted out of office for failing to intervene abroad. Under those circumstances, only the best and the bravest will stand up. And intervention does not necessarily mean military intervention (although that certainly canÕt be ruled out). One of the most interesting conclusions of PowerÕs book is that the world is hampered in responding to signs of genocide because we think that noticing that it is taking place will require us to act militarily. Not wanting to go to war, we pretend that the genocide is not taking place. But, as Power quite convincingly argues, there are many indications that by taking early strong stands against a country murdering its own citizens, we can stop it. When we refuse to even condemn the killing, we only encourage the thugs in power to go farther. This book raises issues that as citizens and moral human beings we all should be grappling with.
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Summary: Ofcourse they will not like it.
Review: Reading the pages of the book, one thinks that how others will respond to this subject matter.
In 21st century no nation wants to bear the shame and responsibility of carrying out a genocide against another. Unfortunately, the world was not this sensitive even 10 years ago when the massacre was going on in Rwanda.
It is a certain responsibility of all the intellectuals of the world to touch this subject matter, to condemn it in a way that no one in the name of "politics" or "national interest" would dare to carry out another genocide.
Of course Turks will not like this book. Of course!!....
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Summary: finally someone says the truth
Review: The Problem From Hell is an excelant book to read. It contains a lot of fact about the Armenian Genocide and the author did a great job presenting the facts. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about the Armenian Genocide, the 1st crime agianst humanity in the 20th century. Samantha Power is very knowledagble about what she wrote and it is very apparant that she has done in depth research. I am proud that a non-Armenian has found our tragedy important enough to write about it. If it had been recognized and if the Turkish government had admitted the Genocide, the world as whole would have been in a completly different stage at this day and age.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: This book was extremely well written , and the content was very desrcriptive and factual. I wouldd recommend this book to anyone intersted in obtaining a better understanding of the political stance the United States had taken during the many genocides throughout the 20th Century.
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Summary: Amazingly well written!! stong analysis and great structure
Review: This book is very good book, the analysis is very sound and based on historical information. I couldn't put it down. This would make a great addition to any library. Samantha Powers did a great job!!
Thanks
Jack
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