America, América A New History of the New World

A _New York Times_ bestseller _•_ A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction _•_ Named a Best Book of the Year by _The New Yorker_,_The New Republic_, and _Mother Jones_ “Greg Grandin's argument is compelling and written with zest. His history is punchy, the array of sources is vast, and the narrative pace is superb.” —_Financial Times_ “An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . _America, América_ reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez.” —_Irish Times_ From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Grandin reveals how the United States and Latin America were forged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other. _America, América_ traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest—the greatest mortality event in human history—through the eighteenth-century wars for independence; the Monroe Doctrine; the world wars, coups, and revolutions of the twentieth century and beyond.