?With its combination of readability, perceptive scholarship, and tough-minded yet humane analysis, Unchallenged Violence will appeal to a multiple audience; to historians who desire an entree to advanced interdisciplinary knowledge of American violence; to undergraduates in courses on recent American history and on American violence; and to thoughtful readers who wish to cut through the tangle of skewed interpretation and special pleading that afflict this subject.?-Journal of American History