books.google.com - American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond...http://books.google.com/books/about/Facing_West.html?id=wrexPiqKo58C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFacing West