**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
Guardian The 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.
