The End of the Myth
By Greg Grandin
From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. Metropolitan Books, 2019.
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A startling investigation into the myth of American exceptionalism and its idyllic frontier, proposing that U.S. politicians have consistently used expansion to distract people from larger issues of inequality while intensifying racial prejudice.
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Who should read The End of the Myth
Politicians • sociologists • historians • teachers and students • those concerned with American expansionism • anyone with an interest in U.S. politics
About the author of The End of the Myth
Greg Grandin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the recipient of both the Bancroft and Beveridge Prizes in American history. He has served as a history professor at Yale University and earned fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation as well as the New York Public Library. His work has appeared in The Nation magazine and the New York Times.
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