![]() But in his new book, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, historian Greg Grandin says that the movement outward has come to a screeching halt. Presidents have promised boundless opportunity by pushing our boundaries ever outward–whatever the cost. īROOKE GLADSTONE: Endless possibility but also endless consumption, endless military might. An ever widening circle constantly growing to reach further and include more. BUSH: The story of America is the story of expanding liberty. Bush promising to quote extend the frontiers of freedom in the war on terror. And believe it or not you did it without an area redevelopment program or urban renewal. RONALD REAGAN: As we hold to this new path, You and your forebears as Malcom said tamed the wild frontier. ![]() The frontier of unfilled hopes and unfiled threats. The frontier of unknown opportunity and perils. KENNEDY: And we stand today, on the edge of a new frontier. Those of us alive today feel it mostly metaphorically. ![]() That seemingly limitless reach, that unappeasable desire is set to have its roots in America's relationship with the frontier. That sentiment has driven centuries of history and that peculiar notion we call American exceptionalism. ![]() ![]() in the 1920s, declared there is no object which as a people we can desire which we do not possess or which is not within our reach. BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is On The Media, I'm Brooke Gladstone. ![]()
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