United States and the PacificAppearing for the first time in English, this award winning book is a masterpiece of scholarship that reads like an adventure story. In The United States and the Pacific, Jean Heffer offers a history of the Pacific as a frontier of the United States, with economics, politics, and culture as his central areas of consideration. Heffer remarks that, it is often said nowadays that the Pacific will become the center of the world in the 21st century. While