Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin is an American historian and professor at Yale University whose work explores the history of the Americas, imperialism, capitalism and political violence. His book America, América examines the history of the United States through its relationship with Latin America, revealing how American expansion southward has shaped both nations and the hemisphere. Grandin has won the Bancroft Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in American historical writing, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his book The End of the Myth, which examined how the concept of the frontier shaped American identity and politics. His scholarship is characterised by its ambition, its narrative power and its willingness to challenge comfortable national myths. Grandin's work reveals the connections between domestic American politics and US interventions abroad, creating a more complete picture of how American power has operated across the hemisphere. The audiobook edition brings his important, prize-winning historical scholarship to listeners interested in American history, Latin American relations and the forces that have shaped the modern Americas.