"To all appearances," wrote Richard Drinnon, "it all began innocently enough with a first victim" (Indian-Hating 35). Indeed, in Drinnon's 'Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building,'those first victims finally have the chance to tell their story through the records of their conquerors. From John Endicott's war on the Niantics and Pequots, to the horrors of the My Lai massacre, Drinnon illustrates, with passion, power and unrelenting wit, how Indian-hating in the Americas became a national pastime, and how that same hate was turned against the native populations of the Phillipines and Southeast Asia. A tremendous feat of scholarship that should not be missed.

Anyone interested in Goldman's life should, somehow, check this book out (obviously it's out of print, but I found it in my university library). Chronicling the letters between Goldman and Berkman, the reader is shown a life of exile that these two anarchists lived after two deportations: one from Amerika and one from Russia. One gets a unique perspective of the political events of the time (Hitler's rise to power, Franco's Spain, etc.), while one feels a compassion for these maligned political radicals. Worth the read.