The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 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

A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.

Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a f...