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 ...
Greg Grandin
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.