In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history - from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. This is why Greg Grandin’s study will be essential reading for those who are rethinking “The Myth” of the American frontier, and why its end is a good thing. THE END OF THE MYTH is a story about our country, through those centuries, fleeing towards, across and beyond that 99th meridian where the nice plains give way to the hard plains. This is a way of thinking about the long-prevailing story of European settlement in North America as a massive error, or delusion. The End of the Myth is a powerful and painful book, clear-sighted, meticulous and damning. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history―from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. Describing the consequences of an exhausted imperialism, Grandin illuminates, like few have, our treacherous present. Grandin writes with learned, punchy elegance, as … The End of the Myth trenchantly relates how an American dream of expansion and growth managed to contain domestic disaffection, and reveals the perils of a shattered imperial fantasy. The End of the Myth trenchantly relates how an American dream of expansion and growth managed to contain domestic disaffection, and reveals the perils of a shattered imperial fantasy. Greg Grandin. A tremendous book.” MYTH is about the expansion: the Alleghenies, Native lands, Mexico, Phillipines, Cuba, Vietnam, Central America, NAFT Greg Grandin is the author of Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.A professor of history at New York University, Grandin has published a number of other widely acclaimed books, including Empire's Workshop, Kissinger's Shadow, and The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft Prize. Describing the consequences of an exhausted imperialism, Grandin illuminates, like few have, our treacherous present.
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