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King Richard III is now known for his legendary deformities and his hand in the deaths of child princes Edward and his brother. But Shakespeare’s account shows a Richard rising to and falling from power??and along the way arranging the murder of his brother and having his closest advisor killed for treachery...
...Power??s book was born midway through a marathon training run in Boston. While jogging past the Holocaust memorial near Faneuil Hall, she was struck by the inscription “never again...
...Power??s opus resonates with a central accusation: U.S. policymakers did nothing to halt cases of genocide when there was not a “vital national interest.” The “gatekeepers”—a term Power uses to refer to those in leadership positions—had to feel force of public opinion or other pressures before they took action...
...says she had “incredibly good fortune” with her book. It spread by word of mouth from bookstore to bookstore. An Atlantic Monthly piece from September 2001, arranged by Michael Kelly—the American journalist who recently died in Iraq—also gave Power??s message a larger audience...
When a government recklessly expends the lives of its young for crass motives of profit and power??always claiming that its motives are pure and moral (“Operation Just Cause” was the invasion of Panama and “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in the present instance)—it is violating its promise to the country. It is the country that is primary—the people, the ideals of the sanctity of human life and the promotion of liberty. War is almost always (one might find rare instances of true...