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Review LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION�An essential, sweeping history of the American frontier, its end and what it has meant to our nation�s sense of itself.� ?Los Angeles Times�The End of the Myth aims, in part, to reposition race-based violence to the center of the frontier narrative [and] situate today�s calls to fortify our borders in relation to the centuries of racial animus that preceded them... A vital corrective to popular conceptions.�?The New Yorker�The End of the Myth kicks hard-packed certainties into dust as Grandin strides across three centuries... to supply rich new context to familiar events and pluck neglected ones from the shadows.�?American Scholar�One of our most gifted writers and thinkers, Greg Grandin has given us a history of the United States like none other. It is a history written from our ever-shifting and expanding borders, a history of our quest to escape history, and a history of how that history has now caught up with us. The End of the Myth bubbles with ideas, insights, and challenges (and often with wry humor), offering essential perspective on our current condition.�?Steven Hahn, author of A Nation Under Our Feet �A great book. Brilliant, erudite, and above all else fresh, The End of Myth offers a genuinely new, compelling, and historically informed framework for understanding the madness of this political moment.� ?Chris Hayes, author of A Colony in a Nation �Many historians have recounted the legend-encrusted saga of American expansionism. Written with insight, passion, and uncompromising moral clarity, The End of the Myth renders all prior interpretations obsolete. The Age of Trump needs history that is both bold and subversive. On both counts, Greg Grandin delivers.�?Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Twilight of the American Century ��If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists,� Cecil Rhodes once said. 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. Describing the consequences of an exhausted imperialism, Grandin illuminates, like few have, our treacherous present. A tremendous book.�?Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger�What happens when expansion is no longer viable as a promise for the nation�s future and as a fix for its problems? Greg Grandin�s analysis of our current political moment is historical, erudite, provocative, and beautifully written.�?Mae Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America�A compelling examination of the American history of frontiers, by one of the most innovative and imaginative historians in any field. Troubling but inspiring, this is intellectual history for a broad readership; its sweep and force are stunning. Grandin brilliantly gives our current conditions of aggression, nostalgia, and racism deep historical grounding for the benefit of all who will listen.�?David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom �This book is an extraordinarily incisive look at the myths that Americans have used to evade our real situation and the responsibilities we might have to one another as members of a democracy. It is also a rich, illuminating, and unsettling retelling of American history as the story of these evasions and the harm they have done?and the countercurrents we might still hope to draw on to build a deeper and better democracy.� ?Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Read more About the Author 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. Read more
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