Greg Grandin is the author of The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His widely acclaimed books also include The Last Colonial Massacre, Kissinger's Shadow, and The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history. He isPeter V. and C. Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.
"The western hemisphere is in turmoil, facing severe crises. There
could hardly be a more auspicious moment for the appearance of this
highly informed updating of Greg Grandin's invaluable insights into
Latin America and its troubled relations with the 'colossus of the
North.'"
--Noam Chomsky, author of Who Rules the World? "Only reality could
be as captivating and disturbing as Greg Grandin's revelations in
this significant update of his classic Empire's Workshop. Latin
America, he shows, is the leading, bleeding edge of US foreign
policy. Empire's Workshop is truly essential reading."
--Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of
U.S. Global Supremacy "It was in Latin America that the U.S.
government first honed its repertoire of imperial domination, often
in the service of capital's relentless expansion. As Grandin shows,
perhaps the most effective of these weapons is ideological: the
steadfast denial that the U.S. is an empire at all."
--Thea Riofrancos, author of Resource Radicals: From
Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador "Provocative and
lucid, Grandin examines how the United States has used Latin
America as a proving ground for imperial war strategies employed
later elsewhere. This important book deserves a wide audience."
--The Washington Post "Greg Grandin's examination of America's
empire in Latin America provides a critical view--squarely opposing
any notion that the United States has advanced toleration, the rule
of law, or democracy in its imperial realm . . . He addresses
empire in terms of its dominated periphery and makes important
contributions by presenting imperial and domestic policies as
inseparable realms."
--Emily S. Rosenberg, The Chronicle of Higher Education "With its
vivid depiction of neocon militarists, religious evangelicals, and
neoliberal economists coming together, Empire's Workshop offers a
cogent analysis of how past interventions in Latin America provide
the United States with a troubling model for present policy."
--Mother Jones "Read Empire's Workshop and the whole disastrous
Bush adventure in Iraq suddenly appears as the logical continuation
of a century of U.S. interventions in that sad laboratory called
Latin America."
--Ariel Dorfman, The Guardian "Insightful and informative."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Grandin shows how much of Latin America,
which today clearly opposes the domination of Washington, questions
the ability of this superpower to bring prosperity, stability and
democracy to the rest of the world when she was unable to do so in
her own backyard."
--Le Monde "A superb book that clarifies, like few others, the role
of Latin America in Washington's grand design and the importance of
the current uprising against the empire in Venezuela, Bolivia, and
beyond."
--John Pilger, author of The New Rulers of the World "Grandin is
especially good on the odious 'public diplomacy' of Reagan/Bush
I/Bush II, a giant step in the degradation of American
democracy."
--George Scialabba, The Nation "In this incisive study, historian
Greg Grandin sketches the vexed course of U.S. relations with Latin
America . . . This timely book offers an analysis of the
ideological foundations of today's foreign policy consensus and a
cautionary tale about its dark legacy."
--Publishers Weekly "If you want to know why the American
intervention in Iraq has failed, look at the El Salvador of a
quarter-century ago . . . Nixon observed that the U.S. could do
what it wanted in Latin America because his compatriots didn't give
a damn about the place. Grandin's excellent book makes a good case
for caring."
--Kirkus Reviews "Meticulous . . . Greg Grandin's book is a highly
readable and deeply unsettling account of how the strategies,
tactics, and diplomacy that the United States government developed
to deal with the Central American 'crisis' of the 1980s became the
very policies that resulted in the current U.S. involvement in
Iraq."
--The American Historical Review "Grandin convincingly argues that
Latin America served as a crucible in which the ingredients of
current U.S. foreign policy were first blended . . . Grandin's
distinctive contribution lies in documenting Latin America's role
as a staging ground for the rise of militaristic idealists within
the Republican Party . . . Vivid."
--Global Policy Forum
"The western hemisphere is in turmoil, facing severe crises.
There could hardly be a more auspicious moment for the appearance
of this highly informed updating of Greg Grandin's invaluable
insights into Latin America and its troubled relations with the
'colossus of the North.'"
--Noam Chomsky, author of Who Rules the World? "Only reality
could be as captivating and disturbing as Greg Grandin's
revelations in this significant update of his classic Empire's
Workshop. Latin America, he shows, is the leading, bleeding edge of
US foreign policy. Empire's Workshop is truly essential
reading."
--Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth
of U.S. Global Supremacy "It was in Latin America that the U.S.
government first honed its repertoire of imperial domination, often
in the service of capital's relentless expansion. As Grandin shows,
perhaps the most effective of these weapons is ideological: the
steadfast denial that the U.S. is an empire at all."
--Thea Riofrancos, author of Resource Radicals: From
Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador "Provocative and
lucid, Grandin examines how the United States has used Latin
America as a proving ground for imperial war strategies employed
later elsewhere. This important book deserves a wide audience."
--The Washington Post "Greg Grandin's examination of
America's empire in Latin America provides a critical
view--squarely opposing any notion that the United States has
advanced toleration, the rule of law, or democracy in its imperial
realm . . . He addresses empire in terms of its dominated periphery
and makes important contributions by presenting imperial and
domestic policies as inseparable realms."
--Emily S. Rosenberg, The Chronicle of Higher Education "With
its vivid depiction of neocon militarists, religious evangelicals,
and neoliberal economists coming together, Empire's Workshop offers
a cogent analysis of how past interventions in Latin America
provide the United States with a troubling model for present
policy."
--Mother Jones "Read Empire's Workshop and the whole
disastrous Bush adventure in Iraq suddenly appears as the logical
continuation of a century of U.S. interventions in that sad
laboratory called Latin America."
--Ariel Dorfman, The Guardian "Insightful and
informative."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Grandin shows how much of Latin
America, which today clearly opposes the domination of Washington,
questions the ability of this superpower to bring prosperity,
stability and democracy to the rest of the world when she was
unable to do so in her own backyard."
--Le Monde "A superb book that clarifies, like few others,
the role of Latin America in Washington's grand design and the
importance of the current uprising against the empire in Venezuela,
Bolivia, and beyond."
--John Pilger, author of The New Rulers of the World "Grandin
is especially good on the odious 'public diplomacy' of Reagan/Bush
I/Bush II, a giant step in the degradation of American
democracy."
--George Scialabba, The Nation "In this incisive study,
historian Greg Grandin sketches the vexed course of U.S. relations
with Latin America . . . This timely book offers an analysis of the
ideological foundations of today's foreign policy consensus and a
cautionary tale about its dark legacy."
--Publishers Weekly "If you want to know why the American
intervention in Iraq has failed, look at the El Salvador of a
quarter-century ago . . . Nixon observed that the U.S. could do
what it wanted in Latin America because his compatriots didn't give
a damn about the place. Grandin's excellent book makes a good case
for caring."
--Kirkus Reviews "Meticulous . . . Greg Grandin's book is a
highly readable and deeply unsettling account of how the
strategies, tactics, and diplomacy that the United States
government developed to deal with the Central American 'crisis' of
the 1980s became the very policies that resulted in the current
U.S. involvement in Iraq."
--The American Historical Review "Grandin convincingly argues
that Latin America served as a crucible in which the ingredients of
current U.S. foreign policy were first blended . . . Grandin's
distinctive contribution lies in documenting Latin America's role
as a staging ground for the rise of militaristic idealists within
the Republican Party . . . Vivid."
--Global Policy
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