Greg Grandin: A History of US Empire & Expansion
Guest: Greg Grandin is professor of history at Yale University. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction in 2020 for his book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. He has also republished his book from 2006 Empire\u2019s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic.\xa0 Professor Grandin served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War.\n\xa0\nPhoto credit: Wikipedia \u201cTen Thousand Miles From Tip to Tip\u201d meaning the extension of U.S. domination (symbolized by a\xa0bald eagle) from\xa0Puerto Rico\xa0to the\xa0Philippines. The cartoon contrasts this with a map of the smaller United States 100 years earlier in 1798.\n\xa0\n\xa0\n\nThe post Greg Grandin: A History of US Empire & Expansion appeared first on KPFA.