How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Growing up, we always had the 50-state U.S. map in classrooms. But after reading this book, I understand how incomplete that map really is: the U.S. has territories, bases, and legal gray zones across the world, which adds up to something that looks a lot like an empire even as it insists it’s neither one nor a colonizer. In places like American Samoa or the Northern Mariana Islands, you see how the U.S. governs over a much larger footprint than the 50 states we’re all familiar with (sometimes in uncomfortable ways for residents).