The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin Summary
Overview of The End of the Myth
Grandin's award-worthy exploration shatters America's frontier mythology, revealing how border walls replaced endless horizons. Praised by historians for its penetrating insights on racism and expansionism, this 2019 masterpiece asks: What happens when a nation built on limitless growth finally hits its boundaries?
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When Expansion Was America's Answer to Everything
What if a nation's entire identity rested on a single belief-that there would always be more land, more resources, more room to run? For over a century, America operated on this exact premise. The frontier wasn't just geography; it was a promise that any social problem could be solved by moving west, that any conflict could be defused by expansion, that limits simply didn't apply. Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 thesis crystallized this into national mythology: America's uniqueness stemmed from "free land" stretching endlessly westward, creating political equality and rugged individualism. Presidents from Jefferson to Kennedy invoked pioneering spirits to justify everything from Indian removal to foreign wars. But what happens when the frontier closes? When a nation built on endless growth hits a wall-literal and metaphorical-it faces a reckoning with all the problems it spent centuries avoiding.
The Original Sin: Democracy Built on Dispossession
The Frontier as National Character
Jackson's Democracy: Freedom Through Racial Violence
War's Vicious Cycle: Violence Breeding Violence
The Reckoning Deferred: From Civil War to Cold War
The Wall: When the Frontier Becomes a Barrier
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