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Book Jacket WORSE THAN WAR
Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A paradigm-changing investigation into the phenomenon of genocide and mass killing, by the author of the number one international bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners

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.

Until deciding to devote himself full-time to writing, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen taught political science for many years at Harvard University. He is also the the prize-winning author of Hitler's Willing Executioners and A Moral Reckoning and contributes to major newspapers and magazines around the world.

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ISBN 978-1-58648-769-0
Pub date: 10/06/09
Price: $29.95/37.95 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
672 pages
Carton Quantity: 16
Current Events, Political Science
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Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Translation, Audio, and Electronic Rights: PublicAffairs
Performance rights: Esther Newberg, ICM

PAPERBACK
ISBN 978-1586489007
Pub date: 10/05/10
Price: $21.95/27.95 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
672 pages
b/w photos throughout
Politics
Selling Territory: W
Pub history: 978-1586487690

E-BOOK
ISBN 978-0-78674-656-9
Pub date: 10/06/09
Price: $29.95/37.95 Canada

608 pages

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