Murder Incorporated - America's Favorite Pastime: Book Two

By Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stephen Vittoria, S. Brian Willson and David Swanson

Just as the lives of slaves and Indigenous peoples paid for the early growth of the new American nation, so too were lives sacrificed to advance the expansion of empire in the 20th century. Book Two in this epic three-part series is a damning account of war—and the selling of war in America—revealing how riches, imperial expansion, and the consolidation of power have been the true aim of American wars and covert actions, both at home and abroad. The seeds of exceptionalism and divine entitlement, whose planting is detailed in Book One: Dreaming of Empire, yield Book Two: America's Favorite Pastime and the nightmarish side of the American Century.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prison Radio
• Release date: Apr 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9780998960074

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal is probably the best-known political prisoner in the Western world. Mumia was sentenced to death for allegedly shooting and killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in December 1981. While behind bars he has written a series of widely-read books, including Live from Death Row (1995), Death Blossoms (1996), and a history of the Black Panther Party entitled We Want Freedom (2004). In December 2001, United States District Court judge William Yohn vacated Mumia’s death sentence but not his guilty verdict. When this second edition went to press the United States Supreme Court was considering that decision.