For over a century, it's been our national myth: that our character as Americans was bred by rugged individualism and the open frontier. But Andro Linklater argues that the West was never without borders. He joins Kojo to discuss how the lines drawn by early surveyors influenced our earliest sense of national identity.
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Defining Our Borders
Listen Tuesday, Jun. 26, 2007 at 1:32 p.m. in Society
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Guests
Andro Linklater
author, "The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity" (Walker)
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