Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Covert Intimacies of Langley and Dulles; 2 At Home with the CIA; 3 Saigon Road: The Co-Constituted Landscape of Northern Virginia and South Vietnam; 4 The Fall of South Vietnam and the Transnational Intimacies of Falls Church, Arlington, and McLean; 5 Iran-Contra as Built Space: U.S. Imperial Tehran in Exile and Edge City's Central American Presence; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Summary
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world
