For centuries, he shows, America's constant expansion-fighting wars and opening markets-served as a "gate of escape," helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. history-from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation-democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. *WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION*įrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.Įver since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity.
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