How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States. That was how the first draft of FDR’s speech went, too: it presented the event as a “bombing in Hawaii and the Philippines”. After racism as a theme, the main idea of the book, a hidden empire, is obvious, and the answer is also obvious. Of course, the seventh-graders were right. Residents of the territories often call it the “mainland”. Yet he only mentioned the Philippines, the reporter noted, “very much in passing”. At some point he deleted the prominent references to the Philippines. The result was profound confusion. Consider the census: according to the constitution, census takers were required to count only the states, but they had always counted the territories, too. But it has also contained another part: not a union, not states and (for most of its history) not wholly in the Americas – its territories. • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread, or sign up to the long read weekly email here. The overseas parts of the US have triggered wars, brought forth inventions, raised up presidents and helped define what it means to be “American”. The confusion and shoulder-shrugging indifference that mainlanders displayed at the time of Pearl Harbor hasn’t changed much at all. But what those films don’t show is what happened next. Yet Roosevelt toyed with that draft all day, adding things in pencil, crossing other bits out. In this view, the place normally referred to as the US – the logo map – forms only a part of the country. Another manner to destroy the culture is by changing laws to give the colonial/administrative government power over all aspects of life, civilian and military. Roosevelt no doubt noted that the Philippines and Guam, although technically part of the US, seemed foreign to many. The logo map is not only misleading because it excludes large colonies and pinprick islands alike. And Hollywood has made movies, from the critically acclaimed From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, to the critically derided Pearl Harbor, starring Ben Affleck. Roosevelt was trying to tell a clear story: Japan had attacked the US. In 1941, the year Japan attacked, a more accurate picture would have been this: What this map shows is the country’s full territorial extent: the “Greater United States”, as some at the turn of the 20th century called it. 'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire.We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by Canada above, Mexico below, and oceans either side. Read full review, This is an amazing book, every chapter of which holds more than enough facts and insights to satisfy those whose political perspective doesn't conflict so strongly that they're driven away. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Polls taken slightly before the attack show that few in the continental US supported a military defense of those remote territories.

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