Julie Greene

Julie Greene

1 book

About the Author

Julie Greene is the author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (The Penguin History of American Life), a work that explores the human ambitions, political forces, and labor behind one of the modern world's most consequential engineering projects. Her writing brings historical events into focus through careful attention to empire, infrastructure, and the people whose efforts shaped national and global change. With an accessible yet deeply researched approach, Greene invites readers to reconsider how monumental achievements are built—and whose stories are remembered in the process.

Writing style
accessible scholarly nuanced

Books by Julie Greene