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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Reeves |
ISBN: | 9780805094084 0805094083 |
OCLC Number: | 995605901 |
Description: | 368 pages. |
Contents: | Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 -- By order of the president signing of Executive Order 9066: February 19, 1942 -- Only what they could carry Public Proclamation Number 1: March 2, 1942 -- "Keep this a white man's country" the opening of the concentration camps: March 22 to October 6, 1942 -- A desert Christmas December 25, 1942 -- Uncle Sam, finally, wants you Nisei enlistment: January 29, 1943 -- "Man's inhumanity to man" Tule Lake "disloyals" camp: September 1943 -- "Is that the American way?" Heart Mountain draft resistance: February 1944 -- "Go for broke" The Lost Battalion: October 30, 1944 -- Going "home" V-J Day: August 15, 1945. |
Responsibility: | Richard Reeves. |
Abstract:
Former Frontline journalist Reeves (Portrait of Camelot ) examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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