Welcome to the TPMCafe Book Club! This is where we regularly invite authors to come and discuss their most recent works with readers and invited commentators. Past Book Club authors include Thomas Frank, Anthony Shadid, Larry Diamond, George Packer, Ivo Daalder/James Lindsay, Robert Dreyfuss, Chris Mooney, Gene Sperling, Gershom Gorenberg, and Kevin Phillips.

This week we'll be discussing Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism. In his book, Greg argues that those looking for precedents to the Bush administration's aggressive foreign policy need look no further than our relationship to Latin America, from Thomas Jefferson’s aspirations for an “empire of liberty” in Cuba and Spanish Florida to Ronald Reagan and the Contras. Join Greg, Bob Dreyfuss, Corey Robin, Michele Wucker, Matt Yglesias, and others in the discussion.
 - kdc