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The Shocking Story of the Japanese-American Internment in World War II
Henry Holt
May 2015
On Sale: April 21, 2015
368 pages
ISBN: 0805094083
EAN: 9780805094084
Kindle: B00O0F3NBE
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Non-Fiction History | Non-Fiction
Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an
authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000
Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War
II
Less than three months after Japan
bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President
Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four
western states to be a war zone operating under military
rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands
of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them less than 24
hours to vacate their houses and farms. For the rest of the
war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned in
primitive camps. In Infamy, the story of this
appalling chapter in American history is told more
powerfully than ever before. Acclaimed historian Richard
Reeves has interviewed survivors, read numerous private
letters and memoirs, and combed through archives to deliver
a sweeping narrative of this atrocity. Men we usually
consider heroes-FDR, Earl Warren, Edward R. Murrow-were in
this case villains, but we also learn of many Americans who
took great risks to defend the rights of the internees. Most
especially, we hear the poignant stories of those who spent
years in "war relocation camps," many of whom suffered this
terrible injustice with remarkable grace.
Racism, greed,
xenophobia, and a thirst for revenge: a dark strand in the
American character underlies this story of one of the most
shameful episodes in our history. But by recovering the
past, Infamy has given voice to those who ultimately
helped the nation better understand the true meaning of
patriotism.
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