Samantha Power

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in Ireland

September 21, 1970

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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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Average rating: 4.26 · 7,575 ratings · 672 reviews · 9 distinct works · Similar authors

	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 3,709 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World 4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 529 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact by Samantha Power (Editor), Samantha Power 3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chasing the Flame 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire, Samantha Power (foreword) 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 3,564 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, Samantha Power (Introduction) 4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,820 ratings — published 1951 — 36 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke In The World by Derek Chollet, Samantha Power 4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress by Raphael Lemkin, Samantha Power 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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