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Pulitzer
Prize-Winning Author Lectures at Pomona College on
America in the Age of Genocide
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Samantha Power, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book,
The Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide
(2003), will give a lecture on the same topic Thursday,
Feb.1 at 11 a.m. at Pomona College.
Power, a former journalist who covered the wars in the
former Yugoslavia for U.S. News and World Report,
The Boston Globe and The Economist, documents
20th century acts of genocide and examines U.S. responses to
them. In an interview Power said that that the U.S. has
never made it a priority to stop genocide. “Our policy in
the abstract toward genocide: silence. And our policy case
by case, is, in fact, not coincidentally, silence.”
Publishers Weekly calls her book “…a well-researched
and powerful study that is both a history and a call to
action.” The New Yorker noted her sense of outrage and said
that “Power is judicious in her portraits of those who
opposed intervention, and keenly aware of the perils and
costs of military action. Her indictment of U.S. policy is
therefore all the more damning.”
The book was also honored with the National Book Critic’s
Circle Award for general nonfiction and the Council on
Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book on
U.S. foreign policy.
Currently, Power is the founder and former executive
director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at
Harvard University, where she is also an adjunct lecturer in
public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Power is
involved with efforts to increase media attention about the
Darfur conflict in Sudan. She is now working on a book about
the causes and consequences of historical amnesia in
American foreign policy.
The event will be held in the Rose Hills Theater, Smith
Campus Center (170 E. Sixth St., Claremont). For further
information call: (909) 607-9435.
The Hart Institute for American History was established at
Pomona College in 2000. The institute’s purpose is to ground
the study of broad and abiding themes in American history in
the close reading of primary documents, a term defined
broadly to include such sources as photographs, music,
material culture, and literary works, as well as traditional
historical sources. |
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