The story of the United States' unique sense of self was shaped by the South—just as the looming giant to the North indelibly marked the story of Latin America. In this stunning and original new interpretation of the New World, Professor Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from a constant and turbulent interaction with each other, shedding new light on well-known historical figures such as Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who nearly lost his head in the French Revolution and conspired with Alexander Hamilton to liberate America from Spain. America, America crosses half a millennium, from the Spanish conquest—the greatest annihilating event in human history—through the eighteenth-century wars of independence and the Monroe Doctrine, to the coups and revolutions of the twentieth. This monumental work of scholarship radically transforms our understanding of slavery and racism, the rise of universal humanism, and the role of social democracy in staving off extremism. A comprehensive and accessible book, "America, America" ​​shows how the United States and Latin America together helped shape the laws, institutions, and ideals that govern the modern world. Drawing on a wide range of sources and skillfully narrated, this book offers a truly new history of the New World.