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Summary: Scholarly achievement
Review: After having read Ms. Power's book, I am profoundly moved by her appeal to American foreign policy makers to act more swiftly in order to curtail future atrocities. Being a Canadian Jew, I have for many years not known much about other Holocausts, today, due to Samantha Power, I feel that the pain of my ancestors is shared with other peoples around the world.
Thank you Ms. Power.
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Summary: Inhumanities Exposed
Review: Terrific section on the Armenian Genocide--20th century's first act of inhumanity perpetrated by the Ottoman Turk Government under the cover of World War I. Buy this book. You'll be blown away!
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Summary: A must read
Review: This book is a must read for those interested in learning about the origins of crimes against humanity and the common threads to genocides in the 20th century. Power's review of the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, and the Rwandan Genocide help readers understand the psychology of the bystander, the victim, and the perpetrator. With brilliant works like this, hopefully we can one day eradicate the denial of these most heinous crimes against humanity and understand them for what they truly were.
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Summary: Well done!!!!
Review: I thouroughly enjoyed reading Samantha Power's book. Excellent research and very informative.
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Summary: A MUST READ
Review: I was so impressed with this book. I was unable to put it down once I started. I am shocked to have learned so much about the horrible events of the twinteeth century, begining with the Armenian Genocide and going to present day. More wotk like this is desperately needed.
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Summary: Essential Reading
Review: This is one book that every literate person should read. More and more genocides are occurring, and the world is doing less and less to stop them. Power could have added Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Argentina, and a dozen other countries to her list of those in which genocide and "democide" (as Rudolph Rummel calls it) has been tolerated or covertly encouraged in recent years. The most atrocious offender countries have, or have had, seats on the Human Rights Commission. The world political community has much to answer for.
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Summary: Great Insight
Review: Samantha Power gives great insight to the origin of the word Genocide and instances of when America could have intervened to prevent or minimize the incidents. It will change the way you look at our foreign policy and commitment to human rights.
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Summary: A Decisive Analysis of How We Can Stop Future Genocides
Review: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana 1906.
It is my hope that readers of this fine and comprehensive book will learn that the world community can stop future genocides - sparing the lives of millions of innocent people. The lesson of the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust and the Cambodian and Rwandan Genocides is that being a bystander to a genocide is morally wrong. I want to live in a world where we take the lessons in Power's book and apply them to make sure that when we say Never Again - we mean Never Again.
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Summary: Superb Analysis of 20th Century Genocide
Review: Finally! Someone gets it right! Power presents not only an insightful analysis of the issue of genocide, but superbly weaves all the various elements that are involved in the practice of genocide - including the origin of the term genocide - to depict a complete conceptual portrait of it. I hope the message of Power's book - that genocides can be averted - reaches the ears of members of Congress and those in the Executive Branch who are charged with shaping U.S. foreign policy.
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Summary: An informed and textured text
Review: I had an opportunity to meet Samantha Power at a lecture which she gave in Providence, Rhode Island recently. After hearing her speak about the way in which she carried out research for this book and the academic and applied aim of the treatise, I am convinced that this is indeed one of the truly great books on American Foreign Policy. Some reviewers have lamented that she has excluded certain episodes of genocide, such as those in Russia and China or the full scope of conflict beween the Turks and Armenians. However, her aim was not to encompass all episodes of genocide --rather her aim was to focus on those episodes in which the U.S. government could have prevented the killing but did not intervene effectively. The title of the book is in fact a quotation from Warren Christopher, the U.S. Secreatry of State during the first Clinton administration describing the Bosnian and Rwandan situation at the time.All sides will certianly not be pleased with this book because the author certainly shows one party as the aggressor and one as the aggrieved. However, she does try and substantiate her claims, rather than relying on conspiracy theories. Thus this book, despite being a six-hundred page endeavor, is not meant to be exhaustive about the topic -- rather about a particular foreign policy context. It is indeed sad that we need such a long chronicle on this topic but it is nevertheless essential reading for all politicians. We need to be shaken out of our complacency and this book does it with academic rigor and sensitivity.
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