But the fact that we rarely hear their voices in The End of the Myth is perhaps less Grandin’s failure than it is the failure of the historical record to capture the voices, bodies, and places that have always had the least access to documentation. Grandin writes with learned, punchy elegance, as attentive to the broad sweep of his narrative as he. If there is something missing from Grandin’s study of the frontier, it is that the vast scope of his history leaves little room for readers to encounter stories on an individual human scale, to grapple with the more intimate effects of decades of militarism on the border. : The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (9781250179821) by Grandin, Greg and a great selection of. The End of the Myth is a powerful and painful book, clear-sighted, meticulous and damning. Part of Grandin’s achievement in The End of the Myth is to situate today’s calls to fortify our borders in relation to the centuries of racial animus that preceded them. But I often heard romanticized stories of 'the old patrol,' a lament for the days when agents had free rein across the borderlands.
As a member of the patrol, I never witnessed anything as straightforwardly depraved as the beatings, torture, rape, and murder Grandin describes.
Grandin’s chapters on the Border Patrol make evident the origins of many of today’s most egregious border-enforcement practices. Grandin argues that the longlasting dream of frontier expansion finally ended in 2016, when Donald Trump proposed building a border wall. troops during the conquest of the country’s continental neighbor. Grandin unflinchingly describes the savagery of U.S.
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