James Dawes. That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity.(Book review)

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James Dawes. That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-6740-2623-0, $19.95.

In That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity, James Dawes has written one of the most insightful and penetrating works on a class of social actors who devote their lives to doing good. I have never read any book quite like this one. Even for a person who writes about human rights crusaders, humanitarian workers, and those who document and report the most abominable atrocities, I was moved to tears by the loneliness and ...

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