Description:
These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide.
Brief description: Samuel Totten is a scholar of genocide studies and professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas.
Review Quotes:
"How can this happen in our time? These chilling accounts of how a democratically elected government gets away with aiding and abetting the mass murder of foreigners should outrage every decent citizen. What is our duty when our rulers betray the moral basis of the consent we give them to govern us?"
--Mukesh Kapila, former United Nations resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan and author of Against a Tide of Evil"I know of no other work like Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds. The book inclides a series of compelling essays that examine US complicity in the genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by other nations' governments. This is a book I shall definitely require in my course on international humanitarianism and human rights."
--John Hubbel Weiss, Cornell University"Totten and his co-authors confront an issue long present in genocide studies literature but rarely addressed on its own: the role of the US in some of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century. In cogent analytical essays followed by illustrative, sometimes shocking, primary documents, Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds lays bare the ways in which America's geopolitical and ideological self-interest led the world's superpower to support or simply turn a blind eye to the murderous plans of some of the worst regimes in recent history."
--Maureen S. Hiebert, University of Calgary