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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans .

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 620 pages

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