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Contributor(s): Slotkin, Richard (Author)

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ISBN: 0806130318     ISBN-13: 9780806130316
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
OUR PRICE: $41.95  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 1998
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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
 
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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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