Since its publication in early 2019 Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States has received unusual amounts and intensities of praise and criticism. Criticism has come from some general readers—especially those who view the book as insufficiently or too lefty—and from some of Immerwahr’s fellow academics. These include historians Paul A. Kramer (commenting on a 2016 précis of the book), Anders Stephanson, and Christian Appy, and sociologist Stuart Schrader. Historian Patrick Iber tilts toward praise of the book (hereafter HTH) as do the four reviewers in a Society for the History of American Read more