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Issue: A People's History of American Empire #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2008
 
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Publisher: FlagHenry Holt and Co.
Brand: Metropolitan BooksView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Henry Holt and Company Inc.
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Pages: 292
ISBN: 97808050874440805087443
UPC/EAN: 978080508744451800
Price: $22.00 CAD
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Content Items: 76 (44 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Paul Buhle; Kathy Wilkes
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Color: Color covers; Black and White interior
Dimensions: 8 1/2" h x 11" w
Paper Stock: Bond
Binding: Perfect Bound
Publishing Format: One-Shot
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Character(s): doughboy
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First Line: A People's History of American Empire
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"A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation"

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Foreword

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Writer(s): Paul Buhle
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Synopsis: Genesis of the book, and its place in Zinn's work
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First Line: A People's History of American Empire
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Prologue

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn
Synopsis: Howard Zinn decsribes his grief over the September 11 attacks, and his despair over the US response of adopting terrorism ourselves, in order to get revenge and to expand American empire.
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Sioux Indians under attack at Wounded Knee
First Line: Chapter I, The Internal Empire
Synopsis: Chapter title page, with large illustration of the massacre at Wounded Knee
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Chapter I, The Internal Empire: The Massacre at Wounded Knee

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Wovoka; Black Elk; Big Foot; Yellow Bird; cavalry
Synopsis: Panicked by the Ghost Dance, US Indian agents and cavalry pointlessly kill 250 Sioux men, women, children, and babies.
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Chapter I, The Internal Empire: Certain White Men

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn (narrator); JP Morgan; John D Rockefeller; Jay Gould; strikers
Synopsis: "Robber baron" capitalists crush resistance to carve out gigantic financial empires.
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Chapter I, The Internal Empire: The Pullman Strike

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): George Pullman; Mrs Pullman; Eugene V Debs; Pullman workers
Synopsis: Pullman cuts workers' pay and increases their costs, even as he makes bigger profits and pays bigger dividends. State, federal, and company officials attack a boycott and strike with violence. Debs is jailed.
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Chapter I, The Internal Empire: The Open Door Policy

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; Alfred Thayer Mahan; Henry Cabot Lodge; Robert Wilcox
Synopsis: Under color of free trade and the Monroe Doctrine, the US invades, attacks, or acquires numerous nations.
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Penciller(s): William Dinwiddie (photograph)
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Character(s): Theodore Roosevelt; Rough Riders
First Line: "Chapter II, The Spanish-American War
Synopsis: Chapter title page, with large photo of Roosevelt and some of his troopers in Cuba
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Chapter II, The Spanish-American War: Antonio Maceo and the Cuban Revolution

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Carlos Manuel de Cespedes; Antonio Maceo Grajales; Maximo Gomez; Liberto; Tomas; Jose Marti; Salvador Cisneros Betancourt
Synopsis: Carlos Manuel de Cespedes frees his slaves and launches the unsuccessful Ten Years War for Cuban independence. Antonio Maceo Grajales (the Bronze Titan) and others resume the struggle in 1895. Despite their successes, the rebels (both black and white) fear that they need US support, but also fear a US takeover. To the despair of the rebels, leaders Maceo and Marti are killed in separate battles.
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Chapter II, The Spanish-American War: The Drumbeat for War

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): William McKinley; Richard Harding Davis; William Randolph Hearst; Clemencia Arango; the Yellow Kid (cameo); Uncle Sam (cameo); Frederick Remington (cameo); Richard Harding Davis (cameo)
Synopsis: Business, press, and political leaders in the US look for an excuse to intervene in Cuba. Newspapers publish lurid stories and headlines, often untrue, to arouse American passions. Without evidence, many blame the explosion aboard USS Maine on the Spanish. Labor leaders express support for the rebels, but oppose US expansionism.
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Chapter II, The Spanish-American War: Smoked Yankees: The Black 25th Infantry

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Theodore Roosevelt; Sgt Frank W Pullen; soldiers of the 25th Infantry; Cuban rebels; Spanish soldiers
Synopsis: The 2nd Massachusetts (white) and 25th Infantry (black) are detailed to attack El Caney in concert with the Rough Riders (white) and 10th Infantry (black) attacking San Juan Hill. The Second Massachusetts retreats and the 25th's white officers stand off, but the black enlisted men spontaneously attack and capture the fort, upon which a white officer confiscates the captured Spanish flag. Over on San Juan Hill, photographers exclude the black troops from the victory pictures.
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Chapter II, The Spanish-American War: Spoils of War

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Tomas; Liberto; Maximo Gomez; US troops
Synopsis: American and insurgent troops defeat the Spanish in Cuba, where more soldiers die of tainted beef supplied by Armour than are killed in battle. Rather than promoting Cuban independence, the US establishes a protectorate. Gomez dissolves the insurgent army.
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Character(s): US soldiers
First Line: Chapter III, The Invasion of the Philippines
Synopsis: Chapter title page, with large photo of US soldiers posing with a few dozen of the Filipinos they massacred at Bud Dajo
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Chapter III, The Invasion of the Philippines: Benevolent Assimilation

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): William McKinley; Emilio Aguinaldo; Commodore George Dewey; William Grayson; General Arthur MacArthur; Mark Twain; Uncle Sam (cameo); Howard Zinn (narrator)
Synopsis: Affecting to sympathize with the Philippine rebels against Spain, the US cuts a deal in the peace treaty to acquire the country itself. The US makes war on the supporters of independence, even using black regiments... many men of which are angry at fighting non-white people far away whilst non-white people are being lynched at home. US troops use the "water cure" torture to interrogate prisoners. Henry Turner, W.E.B. DuBois, and Mark Twain all oppose the war and its conduct. Leonard Wood, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt are enthusiastic supporters.
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Chapter III, The Invasion of the Philippines: The Battle of Bud Dajo

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): US soldiers; Moro fighters; Mark Twain
Synopsis: Ordered to kill or capture Moro holdouts in an extinct volcano, US troops kill all 900 men, women, and children.
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Penciller(s): Art Young (signed)
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): profiteer
First Line: Chapter IV, War is the Health of the State
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Chapter IV, War is the Health of the State: Righteous Conquest

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Admiral George Dewey; Woodrow Wilson; Howard Zinn (narrator)
Synopsis: US leaders recognize that foreign wars can quell trouble at home, if managed with compulsion, propaganda, and suppression of dissent. The wealthy in the US invest heavily overseas. Wilson uses the army and navy to protect their investments, even against the overseas countries themselves.
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Chapter IV, War is the Health of the State: The Ludlow Massacre

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn; Woody Guthrie
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn (narrator); Woody Guthrie (singer/narrator); striking mine families; Colorado National Guardsmen; Governor Elias Ammons
Synopsis: National Guardsmen attack a tent city of striking miners and their families (Ludlow, Colorado, 1914), killing men, women, and children. At the same time American warships attack Vera Cruz, killing a hundred Mexicans.
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Chapter IV, War is the Health of the State: World War I

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Eugene V Debs; WEB Du Bois; Woodrow Wilson; Paul von Hindenburg; Mark Sykes; Francois Georges Picot; Howard Zinn (narrator)
Synopsis: US business and political leaders decide that "American capitalism needed international rivalry -- and periodic war -- to create an artificial community of interest between rich and poor." Debs and Du Bois object. Wilson evades his own neutrality policies to creep closer to the Allies, and to a declaration of war. The British and French make secret agreements to divide the Middle East, betraying the Arabs among whom they are fomenting revolt.
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Chapter IV, War is the Health of the State: Resistance to War

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Emma Goldman; Eugene V Debs; Woodrow Wilson; members of the Industrial Workers of the World; Sheldon W Smith; Mennonites; Molokans; Dukhobors; Kate Richards O'Hare; Alice Paul; Howard Zinn (narrator)
Synopsis: Numerous Americans oppose the war from many points of view -- class, religion, gender -- but government and society crush opposition with severity and with unconstitutional measures.
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): New York city neighborhood dwellers
First Line: Chapter V, Growing Up Class-Conscious
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Chapter V, Growing Up Class-Conscious: Poor but Never Hungry

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Eddie Zinn; Jenny Zinn; Howard Zinn
Synopsis: The Zinn family in Brooklyn endures poverty and the Great Depression with the help of neighborhood saviors, such as the doctor who cured Howard's rickets without charging. Even so, Howard's elder brother, though still a young boy, dies while on a cheap vacation in the country. The family hears news that Sacco and Vanzetti have been executed.
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Chapter V, Growing Up Class-Conscious: Sacco and Vanzetti

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Synopsis: Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested for murders committed during a payroll robbery, and railroaded through a highly suspect investigation and trial. Their trial and execution shocks residents of the Zinns' Brooklyn neighborhood, who recognize the affair as suppression of immigrant dissent.
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Chapter V, Growing Up Class-Conscious: Street Smarts

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn; Eddie Zinn; Jenny Zinn; Leon; Communist demonstrators; New York City Police
Synopsis: Young Howard discovers a damaged Tarzan novel on the street, igniting a passion for books. Dickens stirs up "an anger at arbitrary power puffed up with wealth and kept in place by law." As politicians proclaim that anyone who works hard in America can do well, he recognizes that his father, a waiter, works harder than any politician, but will never thrive. When Zinn joins a Communist demonstration police club him unconscious. Losing faith in the liberal hope that democracy is self-correcting, he becomes "a radical, believing that something was fundamentally wrong with this country."
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Uncle Sam; Capitalism
First Line: Chapter VI, World War II: A People's War?
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Chapter VI, World War II: A People's War? Questioning War

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn; Roslyn Schecter Zinn; Franklin D Roosevelt; Dr Charles Drew; tail gunner; Uncle Sam; John Bull (cameo)
Synopsis: Zinn works at Brooklyn Navy Yard building battleships; marries; and joins the Army Air Forces. The military promotes segregation, while the government favors corporate interests even in the midst of war. Strikes increase. Fewer men resist the draft than in World War I, but three times as many are sent to prison. An Air Forces friend tells Zinn that the US, UK, and USSR are all in the war to build their own empires -- not for moral concern about Hitlerism.
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Chapter VI, World War II: A People's War? Just Following Orders

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn; Air Forces officers
Synopsis: Zinn flies as bombardier on one of the first experimental missions using what will become known as napalm. The attack agonizingly kills enemy German soldiers and friendly French civilians alike. He recognizes that even in World War II, America's hands were not clean. Packing up his decorations, paperwork, and memorabilia, he writes "Never Again" on the envelope.
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Chapter VI, World War II: A People's War? The Atomic Age

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn; Harry Truman; Joseph Stalin; residents of Hiroshima
Synopsis: Truman orders two atomic bombs dropped on Japan to force their surrender. Many suspect that the attacks were also meant to warn off the Soviet Union. Truman demands loyalty oaths from government employees, and the US helps antidemocratic forces, if they are anticommunist, to crush democratic movements. The Cold War is under way.
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"Chapter VII, The Cool War"

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Penciller(s): Mike Konopacki
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Synopsis: Chapter title page, with large illustration
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Chapter VII, The Cool War: The Jitterbug Riot

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Dizzy Gillespie; Count Basie; "Big Jay" McNeely; zoot suiters; police
Synopsis: During and after World War II, many African Americans and Mexican Americans pursue jazz and swing, dance the jitterbug, and wear zoot suits. The zoot suits become a symbol of protest against discrimination in the military, in war work, and in society. Servicemen and police attack zoot suiters, but the dance goes on.
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Chapter VII, The Cool War: The Cradle of R&B Fandom

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Big Jay; Johnny Otis; John Dolphin; teenage fans; police; William Gaines (cameo)
Synopsis: White, black, and Hispanic teens stream to John Dolphin's music store in South Central Los Angeles, and tune in to his radio broadcasts. Both store and broadcasts overwhelmingly carry work by black artists. Police and civic leaders try to stop the flow of dancers and customers, but both keep on coming.
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First Line: Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire
Synopsis: Chapter title page, with large illustration of a march on Washington
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Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire: The Quiet War

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Dr Irene Jackson; Whitney Young; Howard Zinn; Spelman College students; white public librarian
Synopsis: As a young teacher at Spelman College, Zinn helps organize a campaign to integrate the Atlanta public library system. It is eventually successful, but Zinn is fired.
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Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire: Shaken to the Bone

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Bob Moses; Herbert Lee; EH Hurst; John Dillinger Shaw; Freedom Riders
Synopsis: Fighters for civil rights use sit-ins and Freedom Rides to advance their cause, and try to register African American voters. They are met with violence, incarceration, and murder.
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Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire: The Bombs in Vietnam Explode at Home

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
Penciller(s): Mike Konopacki
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Lyndon B Johnson; Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr; Bob Moses; Phil Ochs
Synopsis: Despite passage of the Voting Rights Act, resentment over disproportional poverty, and disproportional deaths in Vietnam, provoke both protests and violence.
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Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire: Vietnam: The Domino Theory

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Ngo Dinh Diem; Mme Nhu; Lyndon B Johnson; Nguyen Cao Ky; Nguyen Van Thieu; Buddhist protestors
Synopsis: The US sets up a semi-puppet government in South Vietnam. Many within that country... most notably from the majority Buddhist population... oppose the government. Northern and Southern Communist forces take up arms against the government. Johnson manipulates events and facts to gain broader US support for fighting in Vietnam.
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Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire: From Resistance to Revolt

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): US soldiers; Viet Cong soldier
Synopsis: Non-white US troops resist fighting non-white Viet Cong, especially when South Vietnamese regular forces avoid battle.
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Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire: The My Lai Massacre

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Hugh Thompson; Herb Carter; Gary Payton; US soldiers; villagers of My Lai
Synopsis: US soldiers massacre some 500 people, down to and including infants, at My Lai. Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew save as many as they can. Ordinary soldiers attack their officers and organize riots.
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Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire: A Peace Mission

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn; Dan Berrigan; North Vietnamese
Synopsis: Zinn and Berrigan travel to North Vietnam to secure release of several POWS.
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First Line: Chapter IX, Land of Burning Children
Synopsis: Chapter title page, with large illustration of self-immolation at the cathedral in Syracuse, NY
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Chapter IX, Land of Burning Children: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Martin Luther King; John F Kennedy; H Rap Brown; Howard Zinn
Synopsis: Kennedy tries to co-opt African Americans into his coalition, with only limited success. Despite legal changes, many conditions remain horrendous for African Americans, and Martin Luther King is assassinated.
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Chapter IX, Land of Burning Children: War Resistance at Home

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Dan Berrigan; Phil Berrigan; FBI agents; Bread and Puppet Theater performers; victims of Kent State Massacre; victims of Jackson State Massacre; Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Synopsis: The Catonsville 9 burns draft records in protest of the war in Vietnam, and the Berrigan brothers go under cover before finally being arrested and jailed. Authorities kill students at Kent State and Jackson State. Howard Zinn joins a Vietnam Veterans Against the War protest march; police blind him with Mace and tear gas.
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Chapter IX, Land of Burning Children: The Second Battle of Wounded Knee

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Oglala Sioux; US agents
Synopsis: Angered at what they consider illegitimate and coercive tribal government backed by the US government, Oglala Sioux and others seize part of the Pine Ridge reservation at Wounded Knee. Federal agents oppose them with force, and at least one man is killed. A negotiated peace brings a peaceful ending, but the US government does not follow through on the agreements negotiated.
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Character(s): Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; George HW Bush; Bill Clinton; George W Bush
First Line: Chapter X, The Same Rotting Barrel
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Chapter X, The Same Rotting Barrel: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Daniel Ellsberg; Tony Russo; Neil Sheehan; Howard Zinn; Richard Nixon
Synopsis: Daniel Ellsberg smuggles copies of the "Pentagon Papers" from his office at the Rand Corporation, and copies them along with Tony Russo. After the New York Times begins publishing the documents Ellsberg and Russo are arrested for espionage. The judge dismisses charges because of illegal actions against Ellsberg by the Nixon administration.
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Chapter X, The Same Rotting Barrel: Hostage to Imperialism

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn (narrator); Gerald Ford; Henry Kissinger; Jimmy Carter
Synopsis: The Watergate scandal forces Nixon's resignation from the Presidency, but investigations avoid the systemic problems. Nixon successors Ford, Carter, and Reagan pursue similar pro-corporate, pro-military, imperialist practices and policies.
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Character(s): Nicaraguan demonstrators
First Line: Chapter XI, Resurgence of Empire
Synopsis: Chapter title page, with large illustration and quote from Father Ernesto Cardenal
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Chapter XI, Resurgence of Empire: The Sandinista Revolution

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Anastasio Somoza; Augusto Sandino; Gregorio Sandino
Synopsis: Until he is assassinated, Sandino fights against oppressive employers, corrupt Nicaraguan government, and US military occupation.
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Chapter XI, Resurgence of Empire: The Covert War in Central America

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Ronald Reagan; William Casey; Raymond Bonner; rebels of the Atlacatl Battalion; villages of El Mozote
Synopsis: Reagan drops the human rights pretext of US foreign policy, backing right-wing violence in Nicaragua and El Salvador. US-trained troops massacre the men, women, and children of the Salvadoran village El Mozote.
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Chapter XI, Resurgence of Empire: The Contra War

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Ronald Reagan; William Casey; Gary Hart; William Cohen
Synopsis: Under Reagan's lead, the CIA aids Contra violence and cuts of trade with Nicaragua. Congress refuses further support for the Contras.
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Chapter XI, Resurgence of Empire: The Iran-Contra Scandal

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Ronald Reagan; George HW Bush; John Poindexter; Bill Breeden
Synopsis: Reagan breaks the law by secretly continuing funding of the Contras, and by selling arms to Iran. Drug trafficking becomes part of the package of working with the Contras. President George HW Bush pardons Reagan officials tied to crimes under Reagan. Odon, Indiana names a street after native son Admiral Poindexter. Bill Breeden steals the sign in protest. He is the only person to do jail time over the Iran-Contra scandal.
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Character(s): Iranian protestors
First Line: Chapter XII, Covert Action and Reaction
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Chapter XII, Covert Action and Reaction: Iran: Overthrowing Democracy

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Mohammad Mossadegh; Clement Atlee; Harry Truman; Kermit Roosevelt (the younger); Dwight D Eisenhower; John Foster Dulles; Howard Zinn (narrator)
Synopsis: Zinn gives background for the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Iran -- the Anglo-American plot to overthrow Iran's democratic government in 1953.
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Chapter XII, Covert Action and Reaction: Iran: Overthowing Democracy, Operation Ajax

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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Donald Wilber; Kermit Roosevelt (the younger); General H Norman Schwartzkopf (the elder); Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi; General Fazlollah Zahedi; Colonel Nematollah Nasiri
Synopsis: Wilber and Roosevelt mastermind the plot against Mossadegh, buying off politicians and police, getting the Shah's support, and selecting a retired general as front man. When violence breaks out and Washington orders them to cancel the plan they persist anyway, overthrowing the fledgling democracy.
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Chapter XII, Covert Action and Reaction: Iran: Overthowing Democracy, Rule and Ruin of the Shah

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini; Jiummy Carter
Synopsis: For 26 years the Shah rules brutally, supported by the CIA and by Israeli intelligence. Western corporations do very well, but many Iranians, including the Shi'ite clergy, are enraged. The Shah forces Ayatollah Khomeini from the country, but his ongoing condemnation contributes to uprisings that drive the Shah into exile. Khomeini returns, proclaiming an Islamic republic. When President Carter allows the Shah into the US for cancer treatment, many Iranians fear that it heralds a US attempt to restore the monarchy. Protestors seize the US embassy and 52 hostages.
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Chapter XII, Covert Action and Reaction: Permanent War: The Bipartisan Consensus

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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Jimmy Carter; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Donald Rumsfeld; Osama bin Laden; George H W Bush; Madeleine Albright; George W Bush
Synopsis: Carter and Reagan support Mujahedeen, including Osama bin Laden, against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Donald Rumsfeld assures Saddam Hussein that Reagan does not object to Iraq using chemical weapons against Iran. G H W Bush leads a war to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. Perhaps half a million Iraqi children die under UN sanctions. G W Bush governs with torture and aggressive war.
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Martin Luther King; Civil Rights demonstrators; Vietnam Veterans Against the War
First Line: Epilogue
Synopsis: Chapter title page, with large illustration
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Writer(s): Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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Genres: historical, non-fiction
Character(s): Howard Zinn
First Line: Thank you, thank you.
Synopsis: Zinn urges his audience to fight empire and "live now as we think human beings should live."
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Bibliography

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Synopsis: Bibliography by chapters
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Acknowledgments

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Index

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The People Behind A People's History of American Empire

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Synopsis: Creator credits. Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States; Mike Konopacki, art & contributions to script; Paul Buhle, editor; Dave Wagner, researcher & scriptwriter; Kathy Wilkes, script doctor & editor
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The American Empire Project

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Synopsis: Explanation of the American Empire Project; list of publications
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Character(s): Howard Zinn; Black Elk
First Line: Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form
Synopsis: Back cover. Summary and blurbs (Eric Foner, Jonathan Kozol, Alice Walker, Russell Banks)
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