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Samantha Power

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

September 21, 1970

Website

http://samanthapower.blogspot.com/

Genre

Social Sciences, Political Science

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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.[image error]

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Samantha Power’s books

Average rating: 4.3 · 46,179 ratings · 4,033 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	Night by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translation), Barack Obama (Goodreads Author) (Memorial Tribute) 4.38 avg rating — 1,340,720 ratings — published 1956 — 229 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Maria Tatar (translator), Samantha Power (foreword) 4.10 avg rating — 508,698 ratings — published 1928 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Education of an Idealist: A Memoir 4.34 avg rating — 19,642 ratings — published 2019 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide 4.26 avg rating — 10,911 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.35 avg rating — 1,683 ratings — published 2008 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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, Graham Allison 3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Time, January 28, 2008 by Samantha Power, Lou Brooks (Illustrator), Ken Lewis it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	untitled On Hannah Arendt 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	untitled On The Costs And Causes Of Forgetting In U.S. Foreign 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Herbal Healing Unleashed Unlocking the Power of Natural Remedies and Holistic Wellness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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“We decide, on issues large and small, whether we will be bystanders or upstanders.”
― Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

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“People who care, act, and refuse to give up may not change THE world, but they can change many individual worlds.”
― Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

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“The Heath brothers stressed that, counterintuitively, big problems 'are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.' 'Shrink the change' became a kind of motto for me and my team, along with President Obama's version of the point: 'Better is good' (p. 517).”
― Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

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Vote for the book you would like to read with the group for Nov/Dec 2019

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, General Nonfiction, 1964

14 votes, 25.9%

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson, History, 1998

7 votes, 13.0%

"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power, General Nonfiction, 2003

7 votes, 13.0%

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg, General Nonfiction, 1996

6 votes, 11.1%

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin, General Nonfiction, 2014

6 votes, 11.1%

Growing Up by Russell Baker, Autobiography, 1983

5 votes, 9.3%

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor, History 1996

5 votes, 9.3%

Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward, History, 1982

4 votes, 7.4%

54 total votes

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