The End of the Myth

The End of the Myth
AuthorGreg Grandin
LanguageEnglish
Published2019
PublisherHenry Holt and Company
ISBN978-1-250-17982-1

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America is a 2019 non-fiction book written by Greg Grandin about the role of the frontier in the United States from the time of the American Revolution to the presidential election of 2016. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2020.[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. 1 2 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.

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