Loved A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present for its unflinching takedown of American mythology? tracks imperial thread overseas in The Jakarta Method.
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- Cold War coups & massacres—exposed w/ receipts
- US fingerprints on global bloodshed revealed
- Victims finally centered, not Pentagon PR
- Turns patriotic myths into smoking guns
You've traced America's imperial fingerprints across its own soil—now follow them to Jakarta, where the CIA perfected the playbook for Cold War mass murder. Vincent Bevins excavates the deliberate extermination campaigns Washington exported to Indonesia, Brazil, and beyond: anticommunist purges that slaughtered millions while building the scaffolding for neoliberal plunder. This isn't footnote history; it's the blueprint for every coup, every disappeared activist, every regime that still answers to corporate overlords.
Bevins hands you the receipts Kissinger buried—testimonies from survivors, declassified cables proving complicity, the body counts sanitized from your textbooks. The Jakarta Method dismantles patriotic mythology with the same surgical precision Zinn brought to Plymouth Rock.
Read it, then explain why you still believe in American exceptionalism.
What Readers Are Saying
"this should be required reading...completely reworked how I understand the Cold War...serious, hopeful, thrillingly revolutionary." — Zach, Goodreads
"This is a must read to understand how the USA works. And if you’ve recently been disillusioned by American politics and new to the party - please do yourself a favor and reprogram yourself with this book." — princeoftheharvest, Reddit
"an important human element...the victims of these policies are not remote, but very much come alive throughout the narrative." — Tanroop, Goodreads
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