PositiveThe New York TimesPower expertly documents American passivity in the face of Turkey\'s Armenian genocide, the Khmer Rouge\'s systematic murder of more than a million Cambodians, the Iraqi regime\'s gassing of its Kurdish population, the Bosnian Serbian Army\'s butchery of unarmed Muslims and the Rwandan Hutu militias\' slaughter of some 800,000 Tutsi. This vivid and gripping work of American history doubles as a prosecutor\'s brief: time and again, Power recounts, although the United States had the knowledge and the means to stop genocide abroad, it has not acted ... Power gives us a Washington that is vibrant, complex and refreshingly human. Within it, she finds an unlikely, bipartisan collection of men and women whose courage and moral commitment she admires ... The same Washington, of course, is a place of defeatism, inertia, selfishness and cowardice.
Katherine Zoepf
PositiveThe New York Times Book Review“Excellent Daughters is one of those rare books reported from a region best known as a crisis zone that are not themselves crisis journalism. What Zoepf chronicles is something subtler: the internal pressures and counterpressures influencing the Arab world toward a form of social change that is by no means inevitable.
