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One that you might like is, War made invisible, how America hides the toll of its military

machine by Norman Solomon.

From Iraq through Afghanistan and Syria and on to little known deployments in a range of countries around the globe.

The United States has been at perpetual war for at least the past two decades.

9-11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America's

foreign policy a constant state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the

American public war made invisible by the journalist and political analyst

Norman Solomon exposes how this happened and what its consequences are from

military and civilian casualties to drained resources at home.

Necessary, timely, and unflinching.

War made invisible by Norman Solomon is available now from the new press. Order your copy wherever books are sold. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackman magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Few figures in 20th century American history

loom larger than J. Edgar Hoover.

The longtime head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

was the consummate bureaucrat, a man who may have

had a greater impact on the course of American history than any other unelected public

official in the country's history.

Listeners will probably be familiar with the zeal with which Hoover tried to uproot the

left from American life, and his repeated successes in doing so.

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