title: The End of the Myth
text: # The End of the Myth
  
  The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America is a book written by Greg Grandin, which won 2020's Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, on the role of the frontier from the American Revolution to the presidential election of 2016.
  
  ## Reception
  
  The End of the Myth won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, along with Anne Boyer's The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care.
  
  Ben Ehrenreich described the work as "a powerful and painful book, clear-sighted, meticulous and damning". Benjamin H. Johnson described the book as "arresting and original".
  
  