Greg Grandin is a Professor of History at New York University and is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft Prize, Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Empire’s Workshop, The Last Colonial Massacre, and The Blood of Guatemala. Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman will be published in late August.