The story of how the United States’ identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. In America, América Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates that the nation’s unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south toward Latin America. In turn, Latin America developed its own identity in struggle with the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Grandin reveals how North and South emerged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other.

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Speakers:

Greg Grandin is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. The End of the Myth won the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the prize in History. Other books include Empire’s Workshop, revised and expanded in 2021, and Kissinger’s Shadow. He is also the author of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History.

Esther Allen is a writer, translator, and professor at Baruch College and City University of New York Graduate Center. She edited, translated and annotated the Selected Writings of José Martí (Penguin Classics). Her translation of Zama, the 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, won the 2017 National Translation Award. Her most recent book, a translation of Di Benedetto’s 1969 novel The Suicides, came out earlier this year.

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