America, América by Greg Grandin shows how the modern United States was built through systematic military intervention, regime-change, and political violence across Latin America. It traces how U.S. elites crushed democratic movements, backed dictators, overthrew reformist governments, and imposed economic and political control in the name of “order,” while Latin American thinkers, revolutionaries, and diplomats fought back with competing visions of sovereignty, human rights, and international law that ultimately shaped the post-World War II global system. The book reveals that many of the freedoms Americans celebrate were secured through the denial of those same freedoms to people south of the border. It’s available wherever books are sold or listen here with trial of Audible.
