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Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin (born 1962) is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at Yale University. He previously taught at New York University.

He is author of several books, including ''Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City'' (2010); this book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A later work, ''Who is Rigoberta Menchú?'' (2011), focuses on the treatment of the titular Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner. His book, ''The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World'' (2014), is a study of the factual basis for the novella ''Benito Cereno'' by Herman Melville. In 2025, his book ''America, América: A New History of the New World'' was published. It was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize.

Grandin's ''The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America'' (2019) received a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Provided by Wikipedia