Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781586489007)

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of the day. Worse Than War gets to the heart of the phenomenon, genocide, that has caused more deaths in the modern world than military conflict. In doing so, it challenges fundamental things we thought we knew about human beings, society, and politics.

Drawing on extensive field work and research from around the world, Goldhagen explores the anatomy of genocide -- explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them, why they happen so frequently and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.

As a great book should, Worse than War seeks to change the way we think and to offer new possibilities for a better world. It tells us how we might at last begin to eradicate this greatest scourge of humankind.

Author: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
ISBN-10: 1586489003
ISBN-13: 9781586489007
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2010
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.32w x 1.41d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/26/2010 pg. 24