A companion to Oliver Stone\u2019s ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people\u2019s history of the American Empire: \u201ca critical overview of US foreign policy\u2026indispensable\u201d (former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev); \u201cbrilliant, a masterpiece!\u201d (Daniel Ellsberg); \u201cOliver Stone\u2019s new book is as riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking as any history book you will ever read. It achieves what history, at its best, ought to do: presents a mountain of previously unknown facts that makes you question and re-examine many of your long-held assumptions about the most influential events\u201d (Glenn Greenwald).<\/b><\/p>\n
In November 2012, Showtime debuted a ten-part documentary series based on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick\u2019s\u00a0The Untold History of the United States.<\/i>\u00a0The book and documentary looked back at human events that, at the time, went underreported, but also crucially shaped America\u2019s unique and complex history over the 20th century. The book and documentary looked back at human events that, at the time, went underreported, but also crucially shaped America\u2019s unique and complex history over the twentieth century.<\/p>\n
From the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War and fall of Communism, this concise version of the larger book is adapted for general audiences.\u00a0The Concise Untold History of the United States\u00a0<\/i>covers the rise of the American empire and national security state from the late 19th century through the Obama administration, putting it all together to show how deeply rooted the seemingly aberrant policies of the Bush-Cheney administration are in the nation\u2019s past and why it has proven so difficult for Obama to change course.<\/p>\n
In this concise and indispensable guide, Kuznick and Stone (who Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills has called America\u2019s own \u201cDostoevsky behind a camera\u201d) challenge prevailing orthodoxies to reveal the dark truth about the rise and fall of American imperialism.<\/p>\n