LovedI'm reading this great book right now called Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin. It's very good, it won a Pulitzer Prize, very good.
Empire's workshop (2006)
Creators: Loved "This completely revised edition includes new information on the US invasion of Panama, US interventions in Cuba, Guatemala, and Chile, Plan Colombia and the War on Drugs, the Obama administration’s involvement in the 2009 coup in Honduras, and the current crisis at the US-Mexico border, caused by decades of misguided Washington policies. Most provocatively, Grandin argues that the origins of many of the current threats to American democracy—disinformation, permanent surveillance, political extremism and out-of-control militarism—were foreshadowed in the United States’ Central American policy."--Back cover.
- ISBN:
- 9781250753298
- Length:
- 292 pages
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