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But both Rumsfeld and the journalist questioning him exhibited a kind of historical amnesia.

Longstanding left-wing critics of empire like Noam Chomsky were now joined by conservative hawks such as Niall Ferguson in agreeing that the United States was an empire, though they differed deeply on whether this was a good thing. In the early years of the Iraq war, the idea of the United States as an imperial power was, for a moment, a subject of serious debate. By May, it had effectively placed a proconsul in charge of the country. By April, it was operating a government of occupation. We never have and we never will.” In March, the United States invaded Iraq. We’ve never been a colonial power.… That’s just not what the United States does. “I’m sure that some people would say that,” he responded, “but it can’t be true because we’re not a colonial power. “Would it worry you,” the interviewer asked him, “if you go by force into Iraq that this might create the impression that the United States is becoming an imperial, colonial power?” Rumsfeld swatted away the question. Retrieved August 16, 2019.In February 2003, Al Jazeera broadcast an interview with Donald Rumsfeld, then George W. " "How to Hide an Empire": Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States"." 'How to Hide an Empire' Shines Light on America's Expansionist Side". Department of History - Northwestern University. ^ "Immerwahr Wins Marshall Scholarship".

ISBN 978-0-3741-7214-5 – via "A poignant story" by Mano Singham at FreethoughtBlogs. How to Hide an Empire: Geography and Power in the Greater United States.

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development Cambridge, Mass.

His work has appeared in n+1, Slate, Jacobin, and Dissent. He is a professor of history at Northwestern University. He completed an undergraduate degree at Columbia University, and a second undergraduate degree at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. Immerwahr originates from a Jewish family and is the great-grandson of a cousin of Clara Immerwahr, pioneering chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber. His book, How to Hide an Empire, was a national bestseller, one of the New York Times critic's top books of the year, and winner of the Robert H.

His book, Thinking Small, won the Merle Curti Award. Daniel Immerwahr is an American historian, professor, and associate department chair of History at Northwestern University.