The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history; Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In 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 office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads; embassies; and villages; its subjects also arrived in 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 elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C.; Friedman tells the story of a place 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 will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often 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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