In the summer of 2009, he reported from Honduras on that country's coup, appearing a number of times on Democracy Now! and Grit TV and writing a series of reports in The Nation and elsewhere on the consequences of the overthrow of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya. Īfter the death of Chávez, Grandin published a lengthy obituary in The Nation, opining that 'the biggest problem Venezuela faced during his rule was not that Chávez was authoritarian but that he wasn't authoritarian enough.' He has appeared on the Charlie Rose Show and has interviewed Naomi Klein and Hugo Chávez. Grandin has published widely on US foreign policy, the Cold War, and Latin American politics in The Nation, The New York Times, Harpers, and the London Review of Books. It is about the hopes and defeats of the twentieth-century left. It is about the roots of democracy and those of genocide. It is about how common people discover politics.

Is about more than the dark history of Guatemala and the Cold War in Latin America. He won the Latin American Studies Association's Bryce Wood Award for the best book published in any discipline on Latin America for Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation.Įric Hobsbawm called The Last Colonial Massacre a 'remarkable and extremely well-written work' that from Brooklyn College in 1992 and a Ph.D. In 2020, Grandin was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. His 2014 book, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, is a study of the factual basis for the novella Benito Cereno by Herman Melville.įordlandia was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker NPR The Boston Globe San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. A more recent book, entitled, Who Is Rigoberta Menchú?, focuses on the treatment of the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner. He is author of a number of books, including Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as for the National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. He previously taught at New York University. Greg Grandin (born 1962) is a professor of history at Yale University.

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