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Manifest Destiny Ends With The Wall

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For the majority of American history, the feeling that this was an exceptional nation became part of our identity and fueled manifest destiny. Yale historian Greg Grandin joins host Krys Boyd to talk about why it’s time to rethink these notions now that there’s nowhere else to expand. His new book is called “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” (Metropolitan Books).