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    Continental Drift

    Mar 04, 2019 4 minutes
    Review by Jill Leovy

    THE END OF THE MYTH: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

    BY GREG GRANDIN

    Metropolitan Books, 384 pp., $30

    “DO WE REALLY NEED another book on the Turner thesis?” a relative said with a sigh, flipping through my copy of Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth on a family getaway. Granted, there’s a textbook whiff of social studies about the book’s murky cover art, its vague subtitle, and most of all, its focus on Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis.

    Fortunately, Grandin, a Bancroft Prize winner and the author of six previous histories, doesn’t care what my relatives, kicks hard-packed certainties into dust as he strides across three centuries in pursuit of his ideas.

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