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

by Daniel Immerwahr

the newly opened territory was called Oklahoma, a Choctaw word meaning “red people.”

Later in life, as he was about to speak at a campaign event, Roosevelt got shot in the chest at close range and then proceeded to give his intended speech for an hour as the blood ran from his body.

“ablaze with pity and with righteous wrath,

“War,” the comedian Jon Stewart has observed, is “God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”

all the efficacy (as a journalist put it) of a slab of oak fighting a buzz saw.

“How typically American to writhe in anguish at the fate of a distant cousin while a daughter is being raped in the back room.”

Sony was the Apple of its day. In the 1960s it introduced the portable television, high-quality color television, and the first desktop calculator that didn’t require vacuum tubes. In the 1970s it was the VCR and the Walkman. In the 1980s Sony debuted compact discs, the Discman, the camcorder, the 3.5-inch floppy computer disk, and—despite its predilection for small sizes—the jumbotron.