Political Violence in America

From Alexander Hamilton to Charlie Kirk

De: Henry Bugalho

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

From the duel that killed a Founding Father to the assassination that shocked a nation, this is the violent thread running through American democracy.

On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton fell to Aaron Burr’s pistol on the banks of the Hudson River. On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated during a political event at a U.S. college campus. Between these two moments stretches more than two centuries of political violence in the United States — a continuity that American history books rarely confront head-on.

This is a true history of the United States told through its most uncomfortable moments.

In Political Violence in America, philosopher and writer Henry Bugalho examines how violence has functioned not as a deviation, but as a structural element of American democracy. From the Founding Fathers to the January 6 insurrection, from the genocide of Indigenous peoples to Black history of America under Jim Crow, from the assassination of American presidents to contemporary domestic terrorism in the United States, this book traces how power has repeatedly been enforced through force, terror, and bloodshed.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is the most recent example of a long-standing pattern in the political history of the United States. Like the killings of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., it reveals how American political conflict has repeatedly crossed the line from rhetoric into violence.

In this book, you will discover:

• Why the Founding Fathers embedded violence into the foundations of the republic
• How white terror shaped Black history of America for generations after emancipation
• Why the assassination of American presidents has never been an anomaly
• How domestic terrorism in the United States has functioned across different eras
• Why workers, radicals, and dissenters have consistently faced repression
• How the January 6 insurrection fits into a much older historical pattern

Written for readers interested in a critical history of the United States, this book will resonate with those seeking writers like Howard Zinn, while offering a distinct outsider’s perspective. It is not a celebration of American democracy, but a serious inquiry into the violence that has shaped it.

If you are looking for another comforting story of American exceptionalism, this is not your book.
If you are searching for a rigorous examination of political history in the United States, grounded in evidence and historical continuity, this book is essential reading.

Political violence did not betray American democracy. It helped build it.

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