Sean Boyer 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINEI recently finished reading #HowToHideAnEmpire by #DanielImmerwahr and WOW did it not disappoint.
I lack the #spoons (as they say) to write a description that would do this masterwork - which I now hold as an unofficial compendium to #HowardZinn's #APeoplesHistoryOfTheUnitedStates - the justice it deserves. Rather I implore you to to listen to #AmyGoodman and #JaunGonzalez introduce it. If you like what you hear, stick around for a 30 minute interview with the author that is an excellent appetiser.
Here are links to buy the book when you inevitably want to:
#DemocracyNow! Interview:
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/5/how_to_hide_an_empire_daniel
E-book:
https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/96192237/how-to-hide-an-empire/daniel-immerwahr/
“How to Hide an Empire”: Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States
“How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.” That’s the title of a new book examining a part of the U.S. that is often overlooked: the nation’s overseas territories from Puerto Rico to Guam, former territories like the Philippines, and its hundreds of military bases scattered across the globe. We speak with the book’s author, Daniel Immerwahr, who writes, “At various times, the inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured and experimented on. What they haven’t been, by and large, is seen.” Immerwahr is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University.