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'This is not history for history's sake, however – this is the history of our present and future, long beyond cold war, into war on terror, war on drugs' Ed Vulliamy, GuardianThe Untold History of the United States is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick’s riveting landmark account of the rise and decline of the American empire – the most powerful and dominant nation the world has ever seen. Probing the dark corners of the administrations of 17 presidents, from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama, they dare to ask just how far the US has drifted from its founding democratic ideals.Beginning with the bloody suppression of the Filipino struggle for independence and spanning the two World Wars, it documents how US administrations have repeatedly intervened in conflicts on foreign soil, taking part in covert operations and wars in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East. At various times it has overthrown elected leaders in favour of right-wing dictators, for both economic and political gain. Examining America’s atomic history, Stone and Kuznick argue that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were militarily unnecessary and morally indefensible. They show how the United States has repeatedly brandished nuclear threats and come terrifyingly close to war. They expose how US presidents have trampled on the US constitution and international law and lay bare the recent transformation of the United States into a national security state.Using the latest research and recently declassified records, The Untold History builds a meticulously documented and shocking picture of the American empire, showing how it has determined the course of world events for the interests of the few across the twentieth century and beyond.

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the Obama administration. Looking at American intervention in foreign conflicts in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East, including taking part in covert operations and interfering to overthrow elected leaders in favour of right-wing dictators, they ask whether US involvement around the globe is about democratic ideals, or political and economic gain. From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Watergate scandal and the transformation of America into a national security state, The Concise Untold History lays bare how US presidents have ignored the constitution and international law to influence the course of world events for the interest of the few.Based on the critically acclaimed documentary series of the same name, this book compellingly unmasks the shocking and unforgettable truth behind the American Empire.

“Indispensable… There is much here to reflect upon.” —President Mikhail Gorbachev “As riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking as any history book you will ever read. . . . Can’t recommend it highly enough.” —Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian “Finally, a book with the guts to challenge the accepted narrative of recent American history.” —Bill Maher The New York Times bestselling companion to the Showtime documentary series now streaming on Netflix, updated to cover the past five years.A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE In this riveting companion to their astonishing documentary series—including a new chapter and new photos covering Obama’s second term, Trump’s first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter, Korea, Russia, Iran, China, Lybia, ISIS, Syria, and more—Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick challenge prevailing orthodoxies to reveal the dark truth about the rise and fall of American imperialism.

A companion to Oliver Stone’s ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people’s history of the American Empire: “a critical overview of US foreign policy…indispensable” (former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev); “brilliant, a masterpiece!” (Daniel Ellsberg); “Oliver Stone’s 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” (Glenn Greenwald).In November 2012, Showtime debuted a ten-part documentary series based on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States. The book and documentary looked back at human events that, at the time, went underreported, but also crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history over the twentieth century. From the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War and fall of Communism, this concise version of the larger book is adapted for the general reader. Complete with poignant photos, arresting illustrations, and little-known documents, The Concise Untold History of the United States covers the rise of the American empire and national security state from the late nineteenth 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’s past and why it has proven so difficult for Obama to change course. In this concise and indispensible guide, Kuznick and Stone (who Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills has called America’s own “Dostoevsky behind a camera”) challenge prevailing orthodoxies to reveal the dark truth about the rise and fall of American imperialism.

The truth about America is revealed in this first of four volumes of the young readers’ edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.There is history as we know it. And there is history we should have known. Complete with photos, illustrations, and little-known documents, this first of four volumes covers crucial moments in American history from the late nineteenth century to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is not the kind of history taught in schools or normally presented on television or in popular movies. This riveting young readers’ edition challenges prevailing orthodoxies to reveal the dark reality about the rise and fall of the American empire for curious, budding historians who are hungry for the truth. Based on the latest archival findings and recently declassified information, this book will come as a surprise to the vast majority of students and their teachers—and that’s precisely why this edition is such a crucial counterpoint to today’s history textbooks. Adapted by Newbery Honor recipient Susan Campbell Bartoletti from the bestselling book and companion to the documentary The Untold History of the United States by Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick, this volume presents young readers with a powerful and provocative look at the past century of American imperialism.

Discover America’s secrets in this second of two volumes of the young readers’ edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Eric Singer.There is history as we know it. And there is history we should have known. Complete with poignant photos and little-known but vitally important stories, this second of two volumes traces how people around the world responded to the United States’s rise as a superpower from the end of World War II through an increasingly tense Cold War and, eventually, to the brink of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is not the kind of history taught in schools or normally presented on television or in popular movies. This riveting young readers volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies to reveal uncomfortable realities about the US role in heightening Cold War tensions. It also humanizes the experiences of diverse people, at home and abroad, who yearned for a more just, equal, and compassionate world. This volume will come as a breath of fresh air for students, teachers, and budding young historians hungry for different perspectives—which makes it a crucial counterpoint to today’s history textbooks. Adapted by high school and university educator Eric S. Singer from the bestselling book and companion to the documentary The Untold History of the United States by Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick, this volume gives young readers a powerful and provocative look at the US role in the Cold War. It also provides a blueprint for those concerned with shaping a better and more equitable future for people across the world.

**The New York Times bestseller****Updated to include Obama's second term, Trump's first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter, Korea, Russia, Iran, China, Libya, ISIS, and Syria**'This is not history for history's sake, however – this is the history of our present and future, long beyond cold war, into war on terror, war on drugs' Ed Vulliamy, GuardianThe Untold History of the United States is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick’s riveting landmark account of the rise and decline of the American empire – the most powerful and dominant nation the world has ever seen. Probing the dark corners of the administrations of eighteen presidents, from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump, they dare to ask just how far the US has drifted from its founding democratic ideals.Beginning with the bloody suppression of the Filipino struggle for independence and spanning the two World Wars, it documents how US administrations have repeatedly intervened in conflicts on foreign soil, taking part in covert operations and wars in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East. At various times it has overthrown elected leaders in favour of right-wing dictators, for both economic and political gain. Examining America’s atomic history, Stone and Kuznick argue that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were militarily unnecessary and morally indefensible. They show how the United States has repeatedly brandished nuclear threats and come terrifyingly close to nuclear war. They expose how US presidents have trampled on the US constitution and international law and lay bare the recent transformation of United States into a national security state with the closest links to Russia since the end of the Second World War.Using the latest research and recently declassified records, The Untold History builds a meticulously documented and shocking picture of the American empire, showing how it has determined the course of world events for the interests of the few across the twentieth century and beyond.

A companion to Oliver Stone’s ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people’s history of the American Empire: “a critical overview of US foreign policy…indispensable” (former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev); “brilliant, a masterpiece!” (Daniel Ellsberg); “Oliver Stone’s 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” (Glenn Greenwald). In November 2012, Showtime debuted a ten-part documentary series based on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States. The book and documentary looked back at human events that, at the time, went underreported, but also crucially shaped America’s 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’s unique and complex history over the twentieth century. 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. The Concise Untold History of the United States 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’s past and why it has proven so difficult for Obama to change course. In this concise and indispensable guide, Kuznick and Stone (who Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills has called America’s own “Dostoevsky behind a camera”) challenge prevailing orthodoxies to reveal the dark truth about the rise and fall of American imperialism.

Secrets, scandales et complots politiques a la Maison Blanche Responsable du lancement de la bombe atomique sur Hiroshima (60 000 morts) et Nagasaki (80 000 morts), Harry S. Truman se vantait de ne jamais avoir eprouve le moindre remords. A un journaliste qui lui demandait si la decision avait ete moralement difficile a prendre, il repondit en claquant des doigts : Je l'ai fait comme ca. Trente ans plus tard, l'offensive du Vietcong pulverisa l'armee sud-vietnamienne. Richard Nixon envisagea de faire sauter les digues et les centrales electriques. Au risque de noyer deux cent mille personnes ? , objecta Henry Kissinger. Reponse de Nixon : Non, je prefererais utiliser la bombe atomique. Je crois que ce serait quand meme un peu excessif , repondit Kissinger. La bombe, ca vous gene ? Allons Henry, un peu de largeur de vue, bon sang ! , retorqua Nixon.Ces confessions donnent la mesure de la responsabilite historique des presidents americains. Inconscients, parfois criminels par procuration, souvent sous influence de faucons , comme l'a encore montre la derniere guerre d'Irak, avec ses 200 000 morts. Demystificatrice, provocatrice, cette vaste fresque de l'histoire contemporaine de l'Amerique, qui remet en cause sa legitimite sur la scene internationale, a declenche une importante controverse.Les auteurs du livre ont analyse dans leurs moindres details les archives americaines, russes, anglaises, allemandes et japonaises.Decouvrez l'histoire des Etats-Unis sous un nouveau jour grace a de nombreux temoignages et archives CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE- "e;Autant de portraits de presidents en action, souvent epingles pour leur cynisme, citations a l'appui; autant de moments epiques retenus par l'auteur, qui n'oublie pas qu'il est cineaste : on est dans l'Histoire racontee par un scenariste. a ce recit passionne et passionnant."e; (Alain Frachon, Le Monde)- "e;Oliver Stone n'est pas un historien comme Howard Zinn, mais un cineaste contestataire qui remet en cause l'histoire americaine telle qu'elle est racontee dans les livres scolaires et dans les medias dominants. Il utilise un vaste materiel (interviews, images d'archives, photographies, films, enregistrements audio, cartes, graphiques) pour remettre en question la version officielle."e; (Serge Lefort, Monde en question)EXTRAITAlors meme que nous ecrivons ce livre, le rideau tombe sur l'Empire americain. Le magnat de la presse Henry Luce ne croyait pas si bien dire lorsqu'il proclama des 1941 - avant la defaite de l'Allemagne et du Japon, la decouverte de la bombe atomique, le boom de la production americaine d'apres-guerre, le developpement d'Internet et la victoire de son pays a l'issue de la Guerre froide - que le vingtieme siecle etait le siecle de l'Amerique .L'accession des Etats-Unis a l'hegemonie mondiale - la plus totale jamais connue - a ete marquee par d'admirables reussites et de terribles deceptions. Ce sont ces dernieres que nous nous proposons d'evoquer ici. Nous voulons mettre en lumiere ce que les Etats-Unis ont fait de mal, convaincus que nous sommes qu'il est encore temps de reparer ces erreurs. Que penser en effet de l'orientation prise par la politique etrangere americaine quand notre pays s'est recemment trouve en guerre avec trois pays musulmans et a lance dans six autres des attaques de drones s'apparentant fort a des assassinats cibles ? Pourquoi disposons-nous aux quatre coins de la planete de bases militaires dont le nombre, dit-on, atteindrait un millier ?

WORUM GEHT ES? Amerikas Aufstieg zur Supermacht wird gemeinhin als heroische Geschichte erzählt. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches, das der amerikanische Filmregisseur Oliver Stone zusammen mit dem Historiker Peter Kuznick geschrieben hat, stehen die Schattenseiten dieses Aufstiegs: blutige Eroberungskriege, die Kolonisierung Lateinamerikas durch Großkonzerne, der Aufstieg von Großbanken als Kriegsgewinnler, Rassismus und Antisemitismus, der Abwurf von Atombomben ohne militärischen Nutzen, die brutale Kriegführung in Vietnam, Afghanistan und im Irak, die Inszenierung von Militärputschen in Lateinamerika und Afrika, Mord, Folter, Menschenrechtsverletzungen. Ein umfassendes Sündenregister, ein Schwarzbuch Amerika, eine Chronik der Unterdrückung, Ausbeutung und Versklavung. WAS IST BESONDERS? Kompetent und fundiert liefern Stone und Kuznick rechtzeitig zum kommenden Präsidentschaftswahlkampf eine kritische Bilanz der Schattenseiten von Amerikas Aufstieg zur Weltmacht. WER LIEST? • Alle, die Amerikas Rolle als Weltmacht kritisch sehen • Leser der Bücher von Peter Scholl-Latour, George Packer und Michael Moore

My ne hotim zanovo pereskazyvat'' vsyu istoriyu nashej strany — ehto poprostu nevozmozhno. My stremimsya prolit'' svet na to, chto my schitaem predatel''stvom idej, legshih v osnovu ee istoricheskoj missii, — poskol''ku nam kazhetsya, chto vse eshche est'' nadezhda ispravit'' ehti oshibki do togo, kak XXI vek okonchatel''no vstupit v svoi prava. Nas gluboko bespokoit kurs, vzyatyj SSHA v poslednee vremya. Pochemu nasha strana razmeshchaet vo vsekh ugolkah zemnogo shara svoi voennye bazy, obshchee kolichestvo kotoryh, po nekotorym podschetam, perevalilo za tysyachu? Pochemu SSHA tratyat na svoi vooruzhennye sily bol''she deneg, chem vse ostal''nye strany, vmeste vzyatye? Pochemu nashe gosudarstvo po-prezhnemu soderzhit ogromnyj arsenal yadernogo oruzhiya, bol''shaya chast'' kotorogo nahoditsya v postoyannoj boevoj gotovnosti, hotya, po suti, ni odna strana segodnya ne predstavlyaet dlya nas neposredstvennoj ugrozy? Pochemu nichtozhnomu men''shinstvu sostoyatel''nyh amerikancev pozvoleno okazyvat'' takoe moshchnoe vliyanie na vnutrennyuyu i vneshnyuyu politiku SSHA i SMI, v to vremya kak shirokie narodnye massy stradayut ot snizheniya urovnya zhizni, a ih golos v politike slyshen vse slabee? Pochemu amerikancy vynuzhdeny mirit''sya s postoyannym nadzorom, vmeshatel''stvom gosudarstva v ih lichnye dela, popraniem grazhdanskih svobod i utratoj prava na chastnuyu zhizn''? EHto poverglo by v uzhas otcov-osnovatelej i prezhnie pokoleniya amerikancev. Pochemu v nashej strane imenno te, kem dvizhet zhadnost'' i uzkolobyj ehgoizm, pravyat temi, kto ratuet za takie obshchestvennye cennosti, kak dobrota, shchedrost'', sochuvstvie k okruzhayushchim, obshchnost'' interesov i vernost'' obshchenarodnym idealam? I ehto lish'' malaya tolika tekh voprosov, kotorye my zadadim na stranicah ehtoj knigi. I hotya my ne nadeemsya, chto sumeem najti otvety na vse iz nih, my vse zhe postaraemsya predstavit'' istoricheskie fakty tak, chtoby chitateli smogli samostoyatel''no uglubit''sya v izuchenie zainteresovavshih ih voprosov. V istorii Amerikanskoj imperii malo horoshego.