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Greg Grandin

Biography

Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin is the author of THE EMPIRE OF NECESSITY; FORDLANDIA, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; as well as EMPIRE'S WORKSHOP and THE BLOOD OF GUATEMALA. A professor of history at New York University and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Public Library, Grandin has served on the UN Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War and has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation and The New York Times.

Greg Grandin

Books by Greg Grandin

Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
by Greg Grandin - History, Nonfiction, Politics

Examining Henry Kissinger's own writings, as well as a wealth of newly declassified documents, Greg Grandin reveals how Richard Nixon's top foreign policy advisor, even as he was presiding over defeat in Vietnam and a disastrous, secret and illegal war in Cambodia, was helping to revive a militarized version of American exceptionalism centered on an imperial presidency. Believing that reality could be bent to his will, Kissinger anticipated, even enabled, the ascendance of the neoconservative idealists who took America into crippling wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
by Greg Grandin - History, Nonfiction

Drawing on research on four continents, THE EMPIRE OF NECESSITY explores the multiple forces that culminated in a remarkable slave rebellion one morning in 1805. Historian Greg Grandin uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.