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.
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