How long does it take to read A Problem from Hell?
Samantha Power
A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power takes about 12 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 656 pages, about 180,400 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
""A Problem from Hell" is a path-breaking interrogation of the last century of American history. Samantha Power poses a question that haunts our nation's past: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to marhsal the will and the might to stop genocide? She provides the answer in the form of the suspenseful story of courageous individuals who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, access to thousands of pages of newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power shows how those who urged U.S. action were thwarted again and again by ignorance, indifference, and, above all, a failure of imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Genocide, Foreign relations, History, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Ethnic conflict, Homicide
