Reply #4: Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

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On Saturday, March 10 at 1:35 pm
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Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Greg Grandin

President Bush is currently in Latin America visiting Brazil, Guatemala, Uruguay, Mexico, and Columbia. Book TV presents an encore presentation of Greg Grandin's 2006 book "Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperalism." The author, a Latin American history professor at NYU, explains that the U.S. has intervened in Latin America repeatedly from Thomas Jefferson's presidency to the current administration.

Greg Grandin teaches Latin American history at New York University and is also the author of "The Last Colonial Massacre" and "The Blood of Guatemala." He has written for The New York Times, The Nation and Harper's and served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan civil war.