![]() ![]() Grandin - a Yale historian whose previous books, including his Pulitzer Prize finalist “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City” (2009), have mostly featured Latin America - fortunately excels in both history and English. One myth, of freedom and opportunity, is replaced by another, grim, notion: that of closure, and of whiteness that must be protected. While Grandin spends most of his book examining the debates about and extensions of Turner’s notion, he offers a new thesis: that the frontier myth is now, in any case, dead, its prominence having been usurped by the mighty (and also misguided) myth of the Border Wall. Native Americans) ever westward, over the Appalachians, past the Mississippi, over the Rockies and, on, eventually, to the Pacific. ![]() In “The End of the Myth,” Grandin observes that it instead allowed white Americans to push problems and problematic people (e.g. Turner suggested that our open frontier served as a benign safety valve. ![]()
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