Samantha Power




Samantha Power

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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 Th...more




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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. ...more
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avg rating: 4.34 | 1,901 ratings | 355 reviews | 9 distinct works | 6 fans
A Problem from Hell: America a... A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
avg rating 4.39 — 1,116 ratings — published 2002
7 editions
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Shake Hands with the Devil: Th... Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Roméo Dallaire, Samantha Power
avg rating 4.30 — 453 ratings — published 2003
10 editions
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Chasing the Flame: Sergio Viei... Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
by Samantha Power
avg rating 4.15 — 156 ratings — published 2007
5 editions
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O Homem Que Queria Salvar o Mu... O Homem Que Queria Salvar o Mundo
by Samantha Power
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2008
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Genocídio Genocídio
by Samantha Power
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2000
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Chasing the Flame Chasing the Flame
by Samantha Power
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Axis Rule In Occupied Europe:... Axis Rule In Occupied Europe: Laws Of Occupation, Analysis Of Government, Proposals For Redress
by Raphael Lemkin, Samantha Power
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005
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Axis Rule in Occupied Europe:... Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress
by Raphael Lemkin, William A. Schabas, Samantha Power
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008
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Dispatches D1: In America Dispatches D1: In America
by Paul Theroux, John Kifner, Samantha Power, Antonin Kratochvil, Gerald Scarfe, Muzamil Jaleel, Gary Knight (Editor), Mort Rosenblum (Editor)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008
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"The art of diplomacy is to avoid placing yourself in a position where you can be humiliated. (Sergio Vieira de Mello)"
Samantha Power (Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World)
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