| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. By Samantha Power. (New York: Basic Books, 2002. xxiv, 610 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-465-06150-8.)

Why has the United States repeatedly failed to intervene to stop the mass murder of civilians abroad? Samantha Power, a journalist who covered the recent Balkan wars and was deeply affected by her experiences, seeks the answer to that question by comparing America's response to mass killings in Armenia, Nazi-occupied Europe, Cambodia, the Kurdish regions of Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda.	1
Power concludes that American nonintervention cannot be attributed to lack of knowledge. Even back in 1915, U.S. officials abroad such as Henry Morgenthau Sr., the American ambassador in Constantinople, "pumped a steady stream of information" (p. 505) back to Washington about the Turkish massacres of Armenians, and the New York Times that year published no fewer than 145 articles about the atrocities.	2
Power rejects claims that the United States has lacked the ability to stop genocide abroad. She cites instances in which even token U.S. intervention deterred killings in Iraq, Rwanda, and Bosnia.	. . .

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