<h1 style="text-align: center;">Meet the Author Series Presents</h1>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4088" src="http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WarBook.png" alt="WarBook" width="180" height="180" /><strong>Taller Puertorriqueño, the National Boricua Human Rights Network (Philadelphia Chapter), and Christ and St. Ambrose Church  present Nelson A. Denis on his book <em>War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony</em>. </strong></p>

In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens.

Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism.

Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, the book gives an unflinching account of gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and the mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history

<strong>About the Author</strong>

Nelson Denis served as a New York State Assemblyman. He was the editorial director of <em>El Diario/La Prensa</em>, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in New York. His editorials for <em>El Diario</em> – over 300 of them – won the “Best Editorial Writing” award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Denis has also written for the <em>New York Daily News</em>, <em>Newsday</em>, and  <em>Harvard Political Review</em>.

Denis is also a filmmaker and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the award-winning feature film <strong><em>Vote For Me</em></strong><strong><em>!</em></strong> which premiered in the Tribeca Film Festival. His screenplays have won awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

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State Representative Leslie Acosta

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Councilman Bill Greenlee

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