Dreaming of Empire: Murder Incorporated

Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny

Book One: Dreaming of Empire

by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria

Published by Prison Radio, 2017

Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny is a searing critique of the American Empire, a diagnosis of a corrupt pathology.

The myth is that America’s prized possessions and greatest exports are democracy and the dream of freedom. The reality, say Abu-Jamal and Vittoria, is that the American dream is illusory, and America’s greatest export is murder—and that along the way to the kill, it thieves, suppresses, and tyrannizes.

Murder Incorporated strives to set the record straight: to educate, to enlighten and enliven the people against the corruptions of empire—corruptions that stretch from Columbus’s first steps on Hispaniola through yesterday’s murderous drone attack.

More than a history book, Murder Incorporated is a lively, irreverent, and spirited alternative to the orthodoxy of American exceptionalism.


Murder Incorporated is Mumia Abu-Jamal’s tenth book written from deep inside America’s gulag. Stephen Vittoria is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. This bold, forthright and unapologetic three book series marks the evolution of two men committed to justice and radical change, compelled to inform and inspire, and driven to condemn the unpunished crimes of the American Empire.

Paperback, 329 pages