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How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
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4.75 stars
This book showed me how the US has been collecting colonies and using them as they see fit for as long as we’ve been around. Understanding the complexities of our relationships with different places and how we have used them (testing malaria meds, testing h-bomb) is horrifying to me. This author managed to keep his sense of humor, and also kept me engaged throughout while I also learned a lot that is obscured in our history.
This book showed me how the US has been collecting colonies and using them as they see fit for as long as we’ve been around. Understanding the complexities of our relationships with different places and how we have used them (testing malaria meds, testing h-bomb) is horrifying to me. This author managed to keep his sense of humor, and also kept me engaged throughout while I also learned a lot that is obscured in our history.