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The Myth Of The Frontier In Twentieth-Century America
University of Oklahoma Press
April 1998
On Sale: March 31, 1998
850 pages ISBN: 0806130318 EAN: 9780806130316 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin’s trilogy, begun
in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal
Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources - fiction,
Hollywood westerns, and the writings of Hollywood figures
and Washington leaders - to show how the racialist theory of
Anglo-Saxon ascendance and superiority (embodied in Theodore
Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West), rather than Frederick
Jackson Turner’s thesis of the closing of the frontier,
exerted the most influence in popular culture and government
policy making in the twentieth century. He argues that
Roosevelt’s view of the frontier myth provided the
justification for most of America’s expansionist policies,
from Roosevelt’s own Rough Riders to Kennedy’s
counterinsurgency and Johnson’s war in Vietnam.
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