A new history of the New World — from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The End of the Myth.
The Western Hemisphere has always contained two Americas: the English-speaking north and the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking south. For five centuries they have defined themselves against each other — through conquest and revolution, slavery and abolition, intervention and resistance, and rival dreams of what a “new world” should be.
In this sweeping work, Greg Grandin tells the story of the hemisphere whole. From the Spanish conquest and the age of liberators through the Monroe Doctrine, the Cold War and today's migrations, he shows how the United States and Latin America made — and unmade — each other, and how Latin America's long tradition of social-rights thinking repeatedly challenged its northern neighbour's idea of liberty. The result reframes everything you thought you knew about “America” by insisting there have always been two.
Praise
“Compelling.” — Financial Times
“Persuasive.” — New Yorker
“Magisterial.” — Spectator
About the author
Greg Grandin is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale. The End of the Myth won the Pulitzer Prize; Fordlandia was a finalist for the Pulitzer, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
