Greg Grandin is a professor of history at NYU and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books on US foreign policy, Latin America, genocide, and human rights, including most recently Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (2009). He served as a consultant to the United Nations Truth Commission on Guatemala in 1997 and 1998.
Greg Grandin
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Writing on Public Books
Melville and American Power: A Conversation with Greg Grandin, Chris Hedges, and Christian Parenti
Greg Grandin’s The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World explores the extraordinary 1805 slave ship uprising that inspired Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno. In last month’s panel discussion, moderated by Christian Parenti, Grandin and Chris Hedges peel back the event’s dramatic layers to examine the paradoxes of freedom and slavery. Christian Parenti […]









