Greg Grandin

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Well over a century of US intervention has shaped Latin America in disastrous ways. Historian Greg Grandin discusses that history, and the region's ongoing fight against imperialism and neoliberalism.Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from July 10, 2021, with Paul Prescod filling in for Ana.Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclubMusic provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkeyPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The history of the United States is in no small part the history of US intervention in Latin America. Historian Greg Grandin on his classic book Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigWatch our new Dig video shorts on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=LcZb3A986p0

The history of the United States is in no small part the history of US intervention in Latin America. Historian Greg Grandin on his classic book Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigWatch our new Dig video shorts on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=LcZb3A986p0 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yale University historian Greg Grandin's iconoclastic 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winner maps the political and intellectual contours of the idea of American frontier itself. After 400 years of expansion, the rage of the U.S. boundary regions begins to contract inward on itself, with the Trump Administration (and the "The Wall") as their political (and physical) symbol. Talk by Dr. Grandin at D.C.'s Politics & Prose Bookstore on the back half!

Featuring a deep dive with 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (among many other books). We will also be joined by scholar and activist Aviva Chomsky, (author of Undocumented and “They Take Our Jobs!” and 20 Other Myths about Immigration). As the 2020 Election draws near, how do we understand the nature of Trumpism and its relationship to what has come before? How do we grasp the rise of Trump’s Border Wall and the way it is re-shaping US political imagination? How has U.S. American history from the beginning been shaped by the way that the edges of the country have been imagined and constructed–often through racism and violence? How does grappling with the long and bloody American history of the “frontier” and the border change the way we see the present politics and future possibilities for the USA in the 21st century? How does studying the history of the border help us to see that ways that US “domestic” & “foreign” policy are deeply related? What will the “end” of the long-standing myth of perpetual American economic and geographic expansion mean for contemporary politics? What can be done to refuse a future defined by rising border walls and to instead reimagine global human liberation in this era of crisis?

 In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. They explore how America's foundational myth of progress has given way to protectionism. Will opposition to the wall finally force us to reckon with the white supremacist conquest the frontier myth has always but thinly veiled? And what can we do to replace destructive myths with productive truths? Music in the Middle: “Gold Action” by Life On Planets, courtesy of Lamb and Wolf Records. Become a member and unlock audio exclusives and all audio and video exclusives along with additional content for non-members alike.  Go to:   https://Patreon.com/theLFShow

On episode 054 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin. They discuss the notion of American exceptionalism, its foundations in the oppression of black and indigenous communities over centuries, and how it manifests today in relation to the pandemic. Greg Grandin is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including most recently The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, and The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes in American History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in the UK. He is also the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first book, The Blood of Guatemala, won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for the best book published on Latin America, in any discipline. He has published widely in, among other places, The New York Times, Harper’s, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Hispanic American Historical Review, and The American Historical Review. A graduate of Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, Professor Grandin received his doctorate at Yale University, where he studied under Emilia Viotti da Costa. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. _________________________________ Bertolt Brecht | "Everything Changes"Everything changes. You can makeA fresh start with your final breath.But what has happened has happened. And the waterYou once poured into the wine cannot beDrained off again. What has happened has happened. The waterYou once poured into the wine cannot beDrained off again, butEverything changes. You can makeA fresh start with your final breath.

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This time we've got historian Greg Grandin on to talk about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, about the history of the American frontier, how it has functioned politically over the years, and how Trump is drawing on that legacy today. (Also listen for an interlude about whether it was appropriate for Bernie Sanders to oppose Reagan's death squad policy in Central America.)