Greg Grandin with Avi Lewis, 26 February 2014 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 26, 2014.

Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University, where he teaches U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. His new book is The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom and Deception in the New World. The talk was followed by a conversation with Avi Lewis.

This event was part of the Lannan In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series.

Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University and is the author of several books on Latin America, including A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War; Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism; and Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. Grandin has published extensively on issues of revolution, popular memory, U.S.-Latin American relations, photography, genocide, truth commissions, human rights, disease, and political violence. His new book is The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom and Deception in the New World.