About the Book: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin presents a groundbreaking five-century narrative of both North and South America. He reframes the traditional U.S.-centric perspective by showing how Latin America profoundly shaped the United States’ political ideals—from the Spanish Conquest to independence movements, the Monroe Doctrine, & the Good Neighbor policy. Grandin illuminates how Latin American ideas on international law, national sovereignty, and social democracy influenced global institutions and continue to offer a powerful counterbalance to growing authoritarianism. Rich with vivid storytelling and meticulous scholarship, America, América redefines our understanding of the modern world through the dynamic interplay across the Americas.