The End of the Myth

The End of the Myth

Author	Greg Grandin
Language	English
Published	2019
Publisher	Henry Holt and Company
ISBN	978-1-250-17982-1

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America is a book written by Greg Grandin, which won 2020's Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, on the role of the frontier from the American Revolution to the presidential election of 2016.^[1]

Reception

The End of the Myth won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, along with Anne Boyer's The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care.^[1]

Ben Ehrenreich described the work as "a powerful and painful book, clear-sighted, meticulous and damning".^[2] Benjamin H. Johnson described the book as "arresting and original".^[3]

References

1. Gonzalez, Susan (4 May 2020). "Yale historian Grandin wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction". YaleNews. Yale University. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
2. Ehrenreich, Ben (31 July 2019). "The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin review – America can no longer run from its past". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
3. Johnson, Benjamin H. (29 June 2020). "Greg Grandin. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America". The American Historical Review. 125 (3). Oxford University Press: 1012–1013. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz1264. S2CID 225859095.

Further reading

• Goldberg, Mark A. (January 2020). "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 123 (3). Texas State Historical Association: 374–375. doi:10.1353/swh.2020.0013. S2CID 213443555.
• Greenberg, Amy S. (2020). "Greg Grandin. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America". American Indian Quarterly. 44 (4). University of Nebraska Press: 483–485. JSTOR 10.5250/amerindiquar.44.4.0483.
• Ibargüan, Ivan (December 2020). "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America". Journal of American History. 107 (3). Oxford University Press: 715. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaaa344. S2CID 230640573.
• Cantú, Francisco (4 March 2019). "When the Frontier Becomes the Wall". The New Yorker. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
• Dolnick, Edward (15 March 2019). "When America's Love of the Open Frontier Hit a Wall". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
• Kellogg, Carolyn (1 March 2019). "Review: America's drive west was once destiny — Now it's a wall". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
• Britton-Purdy, Jedediah (1 April 2019). "Infinite Frontier". The Nation. Retrieved 20 September 2021.