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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.
Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation--democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall.
In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history--from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America's constant expansion--fighting wars and opening markets--served as a "gate of escape," helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country's problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home.
It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.
Greg Grandin is the author of Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A Professor of History at New York University, Grandin has published a number of other award-winning books, including Empire's Workshop, The Last Colonial Massacre, and The Blood of Guatemala.
Toni Morrison called Grandin's new work, The Empire of Necessity, "compelling, brilliant and necessary." Based on years of research on four continents, the book narrates the history of a slave-ship revolt that inspired Herman Melville's other masterpiece, Benito Cereno. Philip Gourevitch describes it as a "rare book in which the drama of the action and the drama of ideas are equally measured, a work of history and of literary reflection that is as urgent as it is timely."
Grandin has served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War and has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New Statesman, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New York Times.
He received his BA from Brooklyn College, CUNY, in 1992 and his PhD from Yale in 1999. He has been a guest on Democracy Now!, The Charlie Rose Show, and the Chris Hayes Show.
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評分說實話,縱使近來美國凶相畢露,但之前聽的"this is America"內容美化,以及超級大國-各種意義上的超級,經濟實力、政治生態、製度構成等加成,它在我眼裏依然有著不弱的濾鏡。但這本書,恰好對應"this is America"的時間綫,從建國講起,把從前種種我認為先進的理念及製度背後的蠅營狗苟,以及為維持如今超級大國狀態所加諸在ta民族、ta種族、ta國傢身上的戰爭和血淚通通揭露開來,我隻能說一句"不愧是你,美國"。全書作者下筆溫柔算得上稱贊的大概隻有Adams總統以及馬丁路德金瞭。特彆適閤此時結閤#blacklives matter事件觀看。 PS:詞匯量還好,但是長句太多真是要我命,適閤考研放鬆的書籍????
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評分說實話,縱使近來美國凶相畢露,但之前聽的"this is America"內容美化,以及超級大國-各種意義上的超級,經濟實力、政治生態、製度構成等加成,它在我眼裏依然有著不弱的濾鏡。但這本書,恰好對應"this is America"的時間綫,從建國講起,把從前種種我認為先進的理念及製度背後的蠅營狗苟,以及為維持如今超級大國狀態所加諸在ta民族、ta種族、ta國傢身上的戰爭和血淚通通揭露開來,我隻能說一句"不愧是你,美國"。全書作者下筆溫柔算得上稱贊的大概隻有Adams總統以及馬丁路德金瞭。特彆適閤此時結閤#blacklives matter事件觀看。 PS:詞匯量還好,但是長句太多真是要我命,適閤考研放鬆的書籍????
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