The War Against All Puerto Ricans - Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island.  In 1950, after fifty years of military occupation, the Nationalist Party staged an armed insurrection against the U.S. Violence swept the island, assassins targeted President Harry Truman, and the U.S. Army deployed thousands of troops—bombarding two towns in the first instance of the U.S. government bombing its own citizens.  Nelson A. Denis frames this history through the life of Pedro Albizu Campos, the Harvard Law-educated president of the Nationalist Party who was imprisoned for 25 years. Utilizing oral histories, eyewitness accounts, and declassified FBI files, Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, and covert operations that shaped Puerto Rico's history from the 1898 U.S. invasion to its modern struggle for self-determination. --- OBAYG