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Greg Grandin is the author of Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A Professor of History at New York University, Grandin has published a number of other award-winning books, including Empire's Workshop, The Last Colonial Massacre, and The Blood of Guatemala.

Toni Morrison called Grandin's new work, The Empire of Necessity, "compelling, brilliant and necessary." Based on years of research on four continents, the book narrates the history of a slave-ship revolt that inspired Herman Melville's other masterpiece, Benito Cereno. Philip Gourevitch describes it as a "rare book in which the drama of the action and the drama of ideas are equally measured, a work of histor ...more

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	Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City 3.65 avg rating — 3,940 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America 4.28 avg rating — 2,848 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism 4.05 avg rating — 1,260 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World 3.97 avg rating — 903 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman 4.03 avg rating — 809 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War 3.83 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation 3.81 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Greg Grandin (Goodreads Author), Deborah Levenson, Elizabeth Oglesby 4.16 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War by Greg Grandin (Goodreads Author) (editor), Lillian Guerra (Contribution by), Corey Robin (Contribution by) 3.92 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? 3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All told, U.S. allies in Central America during Reagan's two terms killed over 300,000 people, tortured hundreds of thousands, and drove millions into exile.”
― Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

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“In December 1981, the American-trained Atlacatl Battalion began its systemic execution of over 750 civilians in the Salvadoran village of El Mozote, including hundreds of children under the age of 12. The soldiers were thorough and left only one survivor. At first they stabbed and decapitated their victims, but they turned to machine guns when the hacking grew too tiresome (a decade later, an exhumation team digging through the mass graves found hundreds of bullets with head stamps indicating that the ammunition was manufactured in Lake City, Missouri, for the U.S. government).”
― Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

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“IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance,”
― Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

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Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs

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