5/13/2023 0 Comments The end of the myth grandin![]() ![]() The book connects America's history of aggrandizement to its domestic politics. Certainly, the United States has experienced moments of isolationism, but these have been lulls in a history of the nation swarming the earth, ignoring boundaries, breaking sovereignties, projecting power, and doing so proudly to fulfill America's promise as an exceptionally enterprising, democratic, and forward-looking nation. In Grandin's telling, this retrenchment from the world represents a dramatic rupture in American history. As Grandin says, “whether that wall gets built or not, it is America's new symbol” (p. Trump and his rhetorical insistence on building a border wall. This is represented by the rise of Donald J. After centuries of the western frontier being the grand symbol of the United States-the untrammeled, untamed West ready to be razed and populated with new Americans-the nation, argues Greg Grandin, has outgrown its own legend. ![]()
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