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A new book by 'New York Times' reporter Charlie Savage, 'Power Wars,' suggests that there has been little substantive difference between George W. Bush's administration and Obama's when it comes to national-security policies or the legal justifications used to pursue regime change in the Greater Middle East.

Greg Grandin

A new book by 'New York Times' reporter Charlie Savage, 'Power Wars,' suggests that there has been little substantive difference between George W. Bush's administration and Obama's when it comes to national-security policies or the legal justifications used to pursue regime change in the Greater Middle East.

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About Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin (born 1962) is an American historian and author. He is a professor of history at Yale University. He previously taught at New York University.
He is author of several books, including Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (2010); this book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
A later work, Who is Rigoberta Menchú? (2011), focuses on the treatment of the titular Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner. His book, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (2014), is a study of the factual basis for the novella Benito Cereno by Herman Melville. In 2025, his book America, América: A New History of the New World was published.
Grandin's The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (2019) received a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.