Greg Grandin (born 1962) is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at
Yale University.[1] He previously taught at
New York University.[2]
A more recent book, Who Is
Rigoberta Menchú?, focuses on the treatment of the Guatemalan
Nobel Peace Prize winner. 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.
He won the
Latin American Studies Association's Bryce Wood Award for the best book published in any discipline on
Latin America for Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation.
Eric Hobsbawm called The Last Colonial Massacre a "remarkable and extremely well-written work" that
is about more than the dark history of Guatemala and the Cold War in Latin America. It is about how common people discover politics. It is about the roots of democracy and those of genocide. It is about the hopes and defeats of the twentieth-century left. I could not put this book down.[6]
After the death of Chávez, Grandin published a lengthy obituary in The Nation, opining that "the biggest problem Venezuela faced during his rule was not that Chávez was authoritarian but that he wasn't authoritarian enough."[13]
Grandin worked as a consultant with the
Historical Clarification Commission (Spanish: Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico, or CEH), the Guatemalan truth commission, and has written a number of articles on its methodology, including its
genocide ruling[16][17] and its use of historical analysis.[18]
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, Metropolitan Books, 2014,
ISBN9780805094534
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman, Metropolitan Books, 2015,
ISBN9781627794497
"The Strange Career of American Exceptionalism", The Nation, January 2/9, 2017, pp. 22–27.
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, Metropolitan Books, 2019,
ISBN9781250179821
"Kissinger Still at Large at 100", The Nation, vol. 316, no. 11 (May 29/June 5, 2023), pp. 16–19. "We now know much more about Kissinger's crimes, the immense suffering he caused during his years in public office." (p. 19.)
Editor
Greg Grandin; Thomas Miller Klubock, eds. (2007). Truth Commissions: State Terror, History, and Memory. Duke University Press.
ISBN978-0-8223-6674-4.
Greg Grandin; Gilbert M. Joseph; Emily S. Rosenberg, eds. (2010). A Century of Revolution. Duke University Press.
ISBN978-0-8223-4737-8.