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Retracing lines that helped define America
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070710
Author:Michael Kenney is a freelance writer who lives in Cambridge.; Michael Kenney
Book Review
The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity
By Andro Linklater
Walker, 238 pp., illustrated
$25.95
From James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo to Owen Wister's "Virginian," to all of John Wayne's big-sky heroes, it has been the space they filled, the frontier, which remains an American self- image.
But however fixed the image of "frontier" may be in the national imagination, Andro Linklater, a British writer on American subjects, argues in "The Fabric of America" that it is "border" that really matters in defining America.
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