E227 - A New History of the Americas, Pt. 2 w/ Greg Grandin

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Subscribe now to get skip the ads and get more content! Danny and Derek once again speak with historian Greg Grandin about his recent book, America, América: A New History of the New World. In this second part of the conversation, they follow US–Latin American relations from the American Civil War through the present. The discussion covers the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the contradictions of U.S. expansion cloaked in the language of human rights, the Mexican Revolution as a defining challenge to US power, Woodrow Wilson’s and FDR’s occupations and the Good Neighbor Policy, the Cold War, the neoliberal turn, the endurance of social movements in the face of American-backed violence, and why contemporary Latin American politics still display revolutionary undercurrents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.3	to your soul.
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0:50.3	to your soul and the now.
0:53.3	The Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson,
1:10.0	and we are very excited to welcome back to the podcast today to discuss his new book.
1:14.7	Greg Grandin, you already know, but Greg is the Peter V&C Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.
1:20.1	And we're talking about his new book, America, America, a new history of the new world.
1:25.0	Greg, thanks for joining us again.
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