"Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman"

(Ezio Cappadocia Memorial Lecture on Politics and History in collaboration with the Department of History and Latin American Studies)

8:00 PM Monday, October 12, 2015
University Center Ballroom

"Current U.S.-Latin American Relations in Historical Perspective: How Latin American Opposition to U.S. Expansion Helped Shape the Global Order"

3:10 PM Monday, October 12, 2015
Gallagher Business Building Room 123

Please join us for a seminar and lecture with Greg Grandin. Since completing his Ph.D. work in history at Yale University in 1999, he has become a leading expert on Latin America and American foreign policy. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including most recently The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (2014), which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (2009) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. It also made the best book lists that year in the New York Times, New Yorker, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and on NPR. Amazon.com named it the best history book of 2009.

Grandin’s other books include Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (2006), The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (2004), and The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (2000). He co-edited with Gilbert Joseph A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War (2010). His most recent book, Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman, was published in August.

Articles by Grandin have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, and The American Historical Review. He has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now! and has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show.

 The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.