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| Author | Greg Grandin |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
| ISBN | 978-1-250-17982-1 |
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America is a book written by Greg Grandin, which won 2020's Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, on the role of the frontier from the American Revolution to the presidential election of 2016.
Reception
The End of the Myth won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, along with Anne Boyer's The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care.
Ben Ehrenreich described the work as "a powerful and painful book, clear-sighted, meticulous and damning". Benjamin H. Johnson described the book as "arresting and original".
References
- ^ Gonzalez, Susan (4 May 2020). "Yale historian Grandin wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction". YaleNews. Yale University. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- Ehrenreich, Ben (31 July 2019). "The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin review – America can no longer run from its past". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- Johnson, Benjamin H. (29 June 2020). "Greg Grandin. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America". The American Historical Review. 125 (3). Oxford University Press: 1012–1013. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz1264. S2CID 225859095.
Further reading
- Goldberg, Mark A. (January 2020). "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 123 (3). Texas State Historical Association: 374–375. doi:10.1353/swh.2020.0013. S2CID 213443555.
- Greenberg, Amy S. (2020). "Greg Grandin. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America". American Indian Quarterly. 44 (4). University of Nebraska Press: 483–485. JSTOR 10.5250/amerindiquar.44.4.0483.
- Ibargüan, Ivan (December 2020). "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America". Journal of American History. 107 (3). Oxford University Press: 715. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaaa344. S2CID 230640573.
- Cantú, Francisco (4 March 2019). "When the Frontier Becomes the Wall". The New Yorker. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- Dolnick, Edward (15 March 2019). "When America's Love of the Open Frontier Hit a Wall". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- Kellogg, Carolyn (1 March 2019). "Review: America's drive west was once destiny — Now it's a wall". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- Britton-Purdy, Jedediah (1 April 2019). "Infinite Frontier". The Nation. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
