GREATER AMERICA:

A sweeping five-century narrative of the New World, AMERICA, AMÉRICA for the first time puts the United States and Latin America in dramatic conversation with each other to offer an original history of the western hemisphere and the rise of modernity.

Grandin's book is filled with historical actors, some obscure, some well-known, such as Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Gabriel García Márquez who confront the dilemmas of their time.
AMERICA, AMÉRICA takes us from the Spanish and English Conquest—the greatest mortality event in human history—through America's eighteenth-centuries' wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, to the world wars, coups, and revolutions of the twentieth century. This is a monumental work of scholarship that will fundamentally change the way we think of our world today, of slavery and its opposite, liberation; the birth of racism and its opposite, universal humanism; and fascism and its opposite, social democracy.
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 is the Peter V. and C. Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.