Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Worse Than War:
Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity PublicAffair

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books 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. Worse than War seeks to change the way we think and to offer new possibilities for a better world.