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 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. ^ a b 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. Oxford University Press. 125 (3): 1012–1013. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz1264. S2CID 225859095.

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