New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2024. Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction. This book is a a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today's culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America's foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity - the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War - and reveals why they are bringing the US to the brink of an existential crisis.