His 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.įordlandia was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker NPR The Boston Globe San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. A more recent book, entitled, Who Is Rigoberta Menchú?, focuses on the treatment of the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner. He is author of a number of books, including Fordlândia: 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. He previously taught at New York University. Greg Grandin (born 1962) is a professor of history at Yale University.
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