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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Prosperity has long been tied to frontier expansion in America’s beginnings.
Chapter 3: Jacksonian ideals prioritized small government and personal freedoms above all.
Chapter 4: The US military served as a tool for endless expansion and a means to unify a divided nation.
Chapter 5: The frontier myth was flawed from the beginning.
Chapter 6: America’s fraught relationship with social democracy shifted during the Great Depression.
Chapter 7: Vietnam failed to calm national tensions or unify the nation, and Reagan later reaffirmed American individualism.
Chapter 8: A new strain of vigilantism arose as horrors along the Mexican border escalated.
Chapter 9: NAFTA and the War on Terror ultimately failed to quell fears of a shrinking frontier.
Chapter 10: The catastrophic debacle of the Iraq war put a permanent end to the myth of the ever-expanding American frontier.
Description
The End of the Myth (2019) offers a revealing look at how America’s frontier mind-set has guided and protected the nation through its troubled history. You’ll see how the expansion of that frontier has served to keep fundamental problems of racism and inequality from being dealt with and find out if the myth of the American frontier has finally died.
Who Should Listen
- History buffs interested in the legacy of the United States
- Anyone outraged at the mistreatment of migrants at the Mexican border
- Students of political science and sociology