In his previous bestseller, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN, John Perkins revealed how he was covertly recruited by the US Government to cheat countries around the world out of trillions of dollars saddling them with huge debts and thereby allowing America to extract their 'pound of flesh' in favours, including access to natural resources, military cooperation and political support. Since its publication, other 'economic hitmen', Jackals (CIA operatives), reporters, officials from the World Bank, the IMF and the government, have dared to come forward to Perkins with their own confessions, and the full, outrageous extent of the global scandal has become apparent. From Latin America to Asia, the Middle East to Africa, countries are being ruthlessly exploited as the USA seeks to expand its sphere of influence its de facto 'empire' by whatever means it can. THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE exposes the tactics involved and the consequences they bring, revealing exactly how the power and influence the US now wields has been built up over the last 25 years. Searing and insightful, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE is an essential eye-opener.