Although by “myth” Grandin is speaking about the “frontier myth” in a lot of ways this book becomes a very good primer/introduction to understanding manifest destiny, the frontier myth, and American Exceptionalism, as a basic, applied concept. Although all of these ideas come into play conceptually through a lot of founding documents and ideas in writing, this book looks at the ways they were specifically put into praxis along the western frontier of America, and then how that frontier first went overseas in places like […]