Greg Grandin Quote

Most critical histories of U.S. involvement in Iran rightly began with the joint British-U.S. coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, which installed Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne. But it was Kissinger who, in 1972, greatly deepened the relationship between Washington and Tehran.

Greg Grandin

Most critical histories of U.S. involvement in Iran rightly began with the joint British-U.S. coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, which installed Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne. But it was Kissinger who, in 1972, greatly deepened the relationship between Washington and Tehran.

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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.