War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

by Nelson A Denis
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

by Nelson A Denis

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The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."

In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens.

Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism.

Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781568585024
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 04/07/2015
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 419,352
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Nelson A. Denis was the editorial director of El Diario/La Prensa, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in NYC, and won the Best Editorial Writing award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Denis served as a New York State Assemblyman (1997-2001) and has written for the New York Daily News, Newsday, and Harvard Political Review. Denis also wrote and directed the feature film Vote For Me!, which premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Facts

Chapter 1 La Princesa 3

Chapter 2 Four Hundred Years of Solitude 11

Chapter 3 Our Children Speak English and Spanish 19

Chapter 4 The Green Pope 25

Chapter 5 A Good Career Move 33

Chapter 6 Cadets of the Republic 37

Chapter 7 The Ponce Massacre 43

Chapter 8 It's Only Chinatown 55

Chapter 9 Carpetas 73

People

Chapter 10 The Governor 81

Chapter 11 How to Rule a Country with a One-Page Report 99

Chapter 12 The Nationalist 109

Chapter 13 The Artist 133

Chapter 14 The OSS Agent 147

Chapter 15 The Barber 157

Chapter 16 The Academy of Truth 171

Events

Chapter 17 Last Days 185

Chapter 18 Revolution 191

Chapter 19 Salón Boricua 209

Chapter 20 La Caja de Chinchas 223

Chapter 21 Atomic Lynching 233

Chapter 22 Weird Science in Puerto Rico 239

Chapter 23 The King of the Towels 247

Epilogue 253

Appendix 263

Acknowledgments 269

Sources and Methodology 271

Notes 275

Bibliography 347

Index 361

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