- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781804997048
- Length: 640 pages
- Price: £12.99
America, América
A New History of the New World
Financial TimesCompelling and written with zest…Don’t be surprised if he wins another Pulitzer
Andreas Campomar, SpectatorAn original and outstanding new history of the New World... What emerges is a vital portrait of a New World in which, despite numerous differences, the relationship between North and South has always been symbiotic... Magisterial.
Irish TimesOne of the best historians today at writing for both scholars and the general public. This is an extraordinarily ambitious book... America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez.
Naomi Klein, bestselling author of DoppelgangerDazzling. Sweeping. Mind-altering. World-changing. This is a once-in-a-generation contribution destined to become our new reference for understanding the making of the modern world. With extraordinary depth, erudition and precision, Grandin avenges the dead and fights for the living.
History TodayAs a history of the rise and fall of US support for a rules-based international order, America, América is a must read for our challenging times
Jonathan Kennedy, author of PathogenesisA fascinating, insightful book that will transform your understanding of Latin America's crucial role in the rise of the United States and the making of the modern world.
Amitav Ghosh, author of the bestselling Ibis Trilogy and Smoke and AshesIn this sweeping and provocative work, Greg Grandin provides a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the intertwined histories of the two Americas, foregrounding Latin American resistance to the hegemony of the United States. This is a compelling new vision of the relationship between the two continents.
Ned Blackhawk, author of National Book Award-winning The Rediscovery of AmericaIn America, América, Greg Grandin advances an urgent vision of the relational history of the Western hemisphere. Adding to his already extraordinary corpus of works and reinterpreting five centuries in broad and beautiful strokes, it ends with a chilling conclusion about the diplomatic and moral failures of our current politics and its return to unilateralism and deliberate misunderstandings of the past. A major and desperately needed synthesis of the Americas and the making of modernity.
Ada Ferrer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cuba: An American HistoryAmerica, América is the best kind of book: masterful and erudite yet absolutely riveting. By considering the long, sweeping story of Latin America and the United States in the same frame, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin has given us a novel and necessary understanding of a deeply entwined history that is sure to surprise readers, not least because he shows convincingly and urgently how a different past—and with it a different, better present—might have been possible.
Francisco Goldman, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Monkey BoyHere is American history told as it never has been told before, full of staggering violence and loss, unforgettable villains and heroes, and the courageous endurance of the poor multitudes, so many sources of inspiration. Beautifully written, this brilliantly researched and reasoned book helps account for the sorry state of the present while offering historical lessons on how we might reach a better future.”
About Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin is the author of The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize; The Empire of Necessity, which won both the Bancroft and Beveridge Prizes in American history; and Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and a number of other widely acclaimed books. He is C. Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.
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