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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By Grandin, Greg
- ISBN
- 9781250179821 9781250179814
- Publisher
- Metropolitan: Holt
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Reviewed on March 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
Throughout American history the frontier has been as much a place as an idea. In a broad and sweeping history stretching from the founding of the nation through the election of Donald Trump, Bancroft Prize winner Grandin (history, New York Univ.; The Empire of Necessity) examines what he calls the "expansionist imperative" of the frontier and what happens when that expansion comes to a halt. The extending boundaries of the Unit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
