In a way, it’s very Zinn-esque, and it makes for a scorching critique of the American Dream and Ideal. government did to its own people who weren’t straight white males, Poole goes all in on an examination of the absolute hypocrisies of political and governmental leaders during the twentieth and early twenty-first century, with a good dash of shots at major American businesses and corporations thrown in as well. Whereas most history books/textbooks shy away from the horrors of what the U.S. It’s well-researched, contains fact-based arguments, and eviscerates the typical American perspective on its own history, especially the kind of history related to the rise of the world’s sole remaining superpower. At the same time, there’s just enough riffing on Horror culture thrown in, with a heavy emphasis on movies at the expense of books and TV shows, which seeks to explain why certain genres of horror were popular during each decade of the twentieth century, told through the lens of what ‘ordinary Americans’ feared at the time.įirst of all, this book is great. government against both its own people who aren’t the stereotypical American citizen (basically everyone who isn’t a straight white male) and the countless millions of foreigners who have been unluckily forced to deal with the American machines of Big Business and War, both seen and unseen. Dark Carnivals is a dense but immensely readable examination of America’s Imperial Empire from about the time of World War I to the present day, with a heavy focus on the wrongdoings of the U.S.
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