Greg Grandin was born on 1962 and is an American historian and author.
10 Facts About Greg Grandin
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Greg Grandin is a professor of history at Yale University.
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Greg Grandin is author of a number of books, including Fordlandia: 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.
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Greg Grandin's 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.
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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.
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Greg Grandin 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.
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Greg 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.
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Greg Grandin has appeared on the Charlie Rose Show and has interviewed Naomi Klein and Hugo Chavez.
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Greg Grandin worked as a consultant with the Historical Clarification Commission, the Guatemalan truth commission, and has written a number of articles on its methodology, including its genocide ruling and its use of historical analysis.
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Greg Grandin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2010.