Monthly Review | The Point Is to Change It
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...
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