Samantha Power

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September 21, 1970 in Ireland

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Samantha Power is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, writer, and academic. She is affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School, holding the position of Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy.

A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and The New Republic. In 2003, Power won the Pulitzer Prize for her work “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. She has contributed reporting to the Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The New York Review o...more

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SP on RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio

Samantha talks to Doug Fabrizio on KUER following the world premiere of "Sergio," an HBO documentary directed by Greg Barker and based on Power's book "Chasing the Flame," at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Books by Samantha Power

Average rating: 4.28 · 4,696 ratings · 569 reviews · 13 distinct works

	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 4.32 avg rating — 2,437 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World 4.14 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Sergio: One Man's Fight to Save the World 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Genocídio 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire, Samantha Power (foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 2,028 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, Samantha Power (Introduction) 4.19 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 1951 — 32 editions	My rating:
	The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World by Derek Chollet, Samantha Power 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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― Samantha Power, Sergio: One Man's Fight to Save the World

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