Andrew Lanham’s review of this book for the Boston Review begins by discussing a letter to LBJ in which Walt Rostow compares the “long, hot summer” to the war in Vietnam. For 10 points each:
[10h] What 2019 book by Stuart Schrader draws a causal connection between tactics honed in the US empire’s global counterinsurgencies and the domestic “war on crime?”
ANSWER: Badges Without Borders
[10m] Daniel Immerwahr’s book How to Hide an Empire borrows this adjective from Bill Rankin to refer to the US empire, specifically its visual quality of being scattered in small bases across a world map.
ANSWER: pointillist [accept pointillist empire]
[10e] Greg Grandin’s 2007 book Empire’s Workshop is about the US empire’s relationship with this multi-continental region in the Western Hemisphere, whose “open veins” title a book by Eduardo Galeano.
ANSWER: Latin America [or América Latina; accept Open Veins of Latin America; prompt on America]
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