Samantha Power

Samantha Power is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Her book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2003. Her new book, The Education of an Idealist, from which this article is adapted, will be published this month by HarperCollins.

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Obama Told Me the Good News, Then Saw My Face Fall

The former UN ambassador recalls the moment President Obama asked her to take the job.
- Samantha Power
- September 5, 2019
AP

How To Kill A Country

Turning a breadbasket into a basket case in ten easy steps—the Robert Mugabe way
- Samantha Power
- December 2003 Issue
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Bystanders to Genocide

The author's exclusive interviews with scores of the participants in the decision-making, together with her analysis of newly declassified documents, yield a chilling narrative of self-serving caution and flaccid will—and countless missed opportunities to mitigate a colossal crime
- Samantha Power
- September 2001 Issue

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Samantha Power

Obama Told Me the Good News, Then Saw My Face Fall

How To Kill A Country

Bystanders to Genocide