Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, the Contributor(s): Slotkin, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806130318 ISBN-13: 9780806130316 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 1998 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 973.9 |
LCCN: 97032043 |
Physical Information: 1.72" H x 6.16" W x 9.26" L (2.64 lbs) 864 pages |
Features: Ikids |
Awards: National Book Awards, Nominee, Nonfiction, 1993 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Slotkin, Richard: - Richard Slotkin is Olin Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 and Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. |
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