The Frontier Thesis influenced dozens of American thinkers. After WWII Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development wrote "Science: The Endless Frontier" where he argued science was the next frontier for American pioneers.
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JFK invoked it in a number of his speeches. i.e: “... we stand today on the edge of a new frontier-- the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and paths, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.”
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When America itself was a Creolization of Germanic Germs and Native trails. HT Frederick Jackson Turner circa 1893. via
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