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DESCRIPTION:Greg Grandin discusses his book Empire’s Workshop. Empire's Workshop is 
 one of the first books to examine how a preemptive foreign policy in Latin 
 America, which included sponsoring coups, death-squad states, and 
 paramilitary insurgencies, has transformed America's domestic policies, 
 forging today's ruling coalition of neoconservatives, Christian 
 evangelicals, free marketers, and nationalists. The road to war in Iraq, 
 Grandin provocatively argues, can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s, 
 when an increasingly internationalist New Right turned to Latin America to 
 avenge Vietnam, and in so doing rehabilitated militarism as a legitimate 
 instrument of state and made free-market capitalism the moral core of 
 American purpose abroad. \n \n"The Americans who engineered countless 
 military coups, death squads and massacres in Latin America never paid for 
 their crimes -- instead they got promoted and they're now running the 'War 
 on Terror.' [This is a] book that is absolutely crucial to understanding 
 our present."  \n-Naomi Klein, author of No Logo\n\n"Illuminates our dark, 
 confusing times.  Read Empire's Workshop and the whole disastrous Bush 
 adventure in Iraq suddenly appears as the logical continuation of a century 
 of U.S. interventions in that sad laboratory called Latin America."\n-Ariel 
 Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden\n\n"A superb book that clarifies, 
 like few others, the role of of Latin America in Washington´s grand design 
 and the importance of the current uprising against the empire in Venezuela, 
 Bolivia and beyond."\n-John Pilger, author of The New Rulers of the World\n 
 \n \nGreg Grandin, a professor of Latin American history at New York 
 University, is the author of two previous books.  The recipient of a 
 Guggenheim fellowship, Grandin has served on the United Nations Truth 
 Commission investigating the Guatemalan civil war and has contributed to 
 Harper's, The Nation, and the New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, New 
 York.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/11/18307653.php
SUMMARY:Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States and the New Imperialism
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church, 9 Ross Drive (at 4th Street), San Rafael
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