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Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia

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The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II used to be not a city. It used to be an American suburb. On this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front within the suburbs of Northern Virginia. On this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest place of business buildings within the country there all through and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world.

As the U.S. expanded its power out of the country by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived within the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and in other places who settled within the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a spot that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital can even give readers a broad interdisciplinary and frequently surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales.

American Crossroads, 37


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