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Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars
December 9, 2003
Samantha Power founder, Carr Center, 2003 Pulitzer Prize
John Shattuck CEO, JFK Library and Museum

John Shattuck, former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, and current CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, discusses his new book, Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response, with Pulitzer-prize winning author Samantha Power.

As the chief human rights official of the Clinton administration, John Shattuck faced many challenges including genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, murder and atrocities in Haiti, repression in China, brutal ethnic wars, and failed states in other parts of the world. Shattuck describes what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton administration's human rights policy from one of disengagement to one focused on saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice. Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response records Shattuck's frustrations and disappointments, as well as the successes achieved in moving human rights to the center of US foreign policy.

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