"The history of the United States," says the Northwestern prof, "is the history of empire." Reading Daniel Immerwahr's latest book, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, feels like an exercise in pulling back a carefully maintained curtain. Immerwahr, a Chicago-based historian and Northwestern University professor, spares no crucial details in his survey of the hi…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on May 2, 2019