Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny

Series · 3 books · 2018-2021

By Chris Hedges, Stephen Vittoria, Mumia Abu-Jamal

Books in series

Murder Incorporated - Dreaming of Empire

Book One

2018

The prevailing myth is that America’s prized possessions and greatest exports are democracy and the dream of freedom. The naked truth, according to Abu-Jamal and Vittoria, is that the American dream is illusory and America’s greatest export is in fact murder – and that along the way to the kill, America thieves, suppresses, and tyrannizes. This book strives to set the record straight, to educate, to enlighten and to enliven the people against the corruptions of empire—corruptions that stretch from Columbus’s first steps on Hispaniola through yesterday’s murderous drone attack. More than a history book, this is a lively, irreverent, and spirited alternative to the orthodoxy of American exceptionalism.

Murder Incorporated - America's Favorite Pastime

Book Two

2019

Just as the lives of slaves and Indigenous peoples paid for the early growth of the new American nation, so too were lives sacrificed to advance the expansion of empire in the 20th century. Book Two in this epic three-part series is a damning account of war—and the selling of war in America—revealing how riches, imperial expansion, and the consolidation of power have been the true aim of American wars and covert actions, both at home and abroad. The seeds of exceptionalism and divine entitlement, whose planting is detailed in Book One: Dreaming of Empire, yield Book Two: America’s Favorite Pastime and the nightmarish side of the American Century.

Murder Incorporated - Perfecting Tyranny

Book Three

2021

In Book Perfecting Tyranny, Abu-Jamal and Vittoria continue their epic recounting of the history—and present reality—of America. This volume challenges the acceptance of some of the most heralded features of American superiority—a free press, an independent judiciary, individual liberty, equal rights for women and minorities—and shows how these are often myths bent to the will of the Empire. As with the previous two volumes, the authors recount not only the onslaught of the American Empire, but the fearless persistence of a resistant American People who refuse to acquiesce. Although this concludes Murder Incorporated the trilogy, the Corporation—and the resistance against it—carries on. Series The prevailing myth is that America's prized possessions and greatest exports are democracy and the dream of freedom. The naked truth, say Abu-Jamal and Vittoria, is that the American dream is illusory and America's greatest export is in fact murder—and that along the way to the kill, it thieves, suppresses, and tyrannizes. More than a history book, this is a lively, irreverent, and spirited alternative to the orthodoxy of American Exceptionalism.

Authors

Chris Hedges

Author · 16 books

Christopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. Hedges is known as the best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City.

Stephen Vittoria

Author · 2 books

Stephen Vittoria is an award-winning filmmaker and author. His last two feature documentaries—"Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary" and "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern"—have been embraced by moviegoers and audiences worldwide. Vittoria was also a producer on two feature documentaries by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney: "Gonzo: The Life & Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" and "Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place." Along with journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, Vittoria co-authored the three-book nonfiction series "Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny"—with forewords by Angela Davis, S. Brian Willson, and Chris Hedges. Vittoria also contributed to an anthology (along with Norman Mailer and Frank Deford) entitled "In Times Like These: How We Pray." Vittoria is the founder and creative director of two Southern California production companies: Street Legal Cinema and Deep Image.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Author · 9 books

American political activist and journalist