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Added 2020-03-05 22:23:23 +0000 UTCTitle: Trump's Wall and the End of the American Frontier - Watch / Listen
Description: In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. They explore how America's foundational myth of progress has given way to protectionism. Will opposition to the wall finally force us to reckon with the white supremacist conquest the frontier myth has always but thinly veiled? And what can we do to replace destructive myths with productive truths?
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Guest Bio:
Yale History Professor and author, Greg Grandin, has published widely on US foreign policy, the Cold War, and Latin American politics in The Nation, The New York Times, Harpers, and the London Review of Books. Grandin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Grandin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2010.
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“Gold Action” by Life On Planets, courtesy of Lamb and Wolf Records, more information
