The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Free Audiobook Download by Greg Grandin

In this book, Grandin argues that the frontier myths in America have carried us from a time when it was thought that the 'good Indian' must be protected, to the present day where Native Americans are seen as trying to destroy American culture and society. In order to understand America's history, we need to confront the myths. In this book, Grandin provides an indepth account of America's cultural struggles and how they shape our present-day attitudes.

In this book, Greg Grandin sheds light on the history of our borders and the people who inhabit them. He does this by breaking down myths about immigration, the frontier and settler colonialism. One reviewer for All Things Considered says that according to Grandin's account "the border is a geopolitical construct, not just some natural boundary."

The end of the frontier is a recurring theme in American history, but nothing defined America like its borderlands. With the rise of modernity, with its profound commitment to democratic principles and its emphasis on national sovereignty, the frontier receded. In other words, at a time when America was no longer being conceived as a nation built on frontiers of land and labor, it became a nation that was itself fixed by borders. The border wall between Mexico and the United States epitomizes this historical trend

It is not often that a major publication takes the time to document how our understanding of history has been shaped by what was deemed politically correct. In this volume, Greg Grandin documents the way US society and culture has been shaped by the narratives it sustains about immigration in order to maintain a sense of control over its borders, defined as between its own people and the rest of humanity.

We are living in a moment of extraordinary change in America, and it is one that has been fueled by the election of Trump. His victory unleashed a tsunami of fury and fear across the country, with many people experiencing a loss of trust in everything they had come to understand about the world...In this new era, there is no more frontier. The opportunity for advancement that once led to dreams of going West now leads to the loss of hope for an ever-expanding economic chasm, a power struggle that pits people against each other in a race to the bottom. This book is a call to arms from one of America's preeminent historians, who takes readers on an epic journey through history as he examines how we arrived at

This is a narrated version of Greg Grandin's book on the War on Terror, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. It examines how the frontier myth came to exist, its role in framing American migration and assimilation policies, and its negative consequences for those who lived within them by examining how it has been used to justify everything from ethnic cleansing during World War II to refugee camps today.