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The End of the Myth

Greg Grandin

Why did America's faith in an endless frontier, once sold as a cure for inequality and racism, turn into walls, wars and fear of the border?

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Author
Greg Grandin

Why read it

  • You will learn to question the idea that expansion naturally cured inequality and racism
  • You will understand the safety valve idea, in which pressure at home is said to be released by moving outward
  • You will recognise how a border wall can work as a political symbol that matters more than its bricks

Who it is for

  • A reader trying to place today's border debate in a longer story
  • A history student weary of the frontier hero story
  • A voter who wants the background to talk of walls and wars

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. Fleeing Forward
  3. ONE
  4. All That Space
  5. TWO
  6. The Alpha and the Omega
  7. THREE
  8. A Caucasian Democracy
  9. FOUR
  10. The Safety Valve
  11. FIVE
  12. Are You Ready for All These Wars?
  13. SIX
  14. The True Relief
  15. SEVEN
  16. The Outer Edge
  17. EIGHT
  18. The Pact of 1898
  19. NINE
  20. A Fortress on the Frontier
  21. TEN
  22. A Psychological Twist
  23. ELEVEN
  24. A Golden Harvest
  25. TWELVE
  26. Some Demonic Suction Tube
  27. THIRTEEN
  28. More, More, More
  29. FOURTEEN
  30. The New Preëmptor
  31. FIFTEEN
  32. Crossing the Blood Meridian
  33. EPILOGUE
  34. The Significance of the Wall in American History

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