The End of the Myth

I read this partly for class material, and did find some good information here that I didn't know. I was especially taken with Grandin's discussion of NAFTA and the impact it had on Mexicans and American companies flooded into Mexico, displacing agricultural work there. This contributed a lot to illegal immigration to the US. I also appreciated the discussion of MLK's critique of the frontier narrative in America's Vietnam policies and war. Finally (and I see that this is in reverse chronological order), I liked the way that he framed the War of 1898 as a triumph of national (white) unity (which I knew) and Confederate memory-making & the Lost Cause (which I didn't fully grasp in detail until I read this). All in all, there is a lot of valuable material here. There were times when I felt that his underlying argument overwhelmed the story. He sees a stark choice for Americans know between barbarism & socialism, or at least social democracy.