An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015), 296 pages, $16.00, paperback.
David Vine,
The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021), 464 pages, $26.95, paperback.
On July 15, 1960, in Los Angeles, John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic nomination for president. He said:
I stand tonight facing west on what was once the last frontier. From the lands that stretch three thousand miles behind me, the pioneers of old gave up their safety, their comfort and sometimes their lives to build a new world here in the West.… They were determined to make that new world strong and free…to conquer the enemies that threatened from without and within. Today some would say that those struggles are all over…that there is no longer an American frontier.… But I trust that no one in this vast assemblage will agree with those sentiments. For