The book addresses the darkest and most shameful episodes in U.S. history—about which, according to the author, the “free press” prefers to stay silent. This bestseller exposes the underside of the “American Dream” and offers a different view of the country’s past, aiming to restore hidden facts and reveal the criminal foundations of the American state. How did wealthy people who profited from smuggling and the slave trade push the “American Revolution” and the “War of Independence” so that, after victory, ordinary people would be left with nothing—since life under “freedom” turned out to be more expensive and more hopeless than under “tyranny”? Is it true that in the history of the United States there were more uprisings, pogroms, punitive actions, filth, and blood than in Russia? By what methods did the United States appropriate other people’s territories? And how durable is the “palace of democracy,” built on slavery and genocide?