Democracy on Trial: The Japanese American Evacuation and Relocation in World War II

Smith, Page

ISBN 10: 0684803542 / ISBN 13: 9780684803548

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995

About this Item

25 cm, 476, part of rear DJ and flap torn and missing at top, black mark on bottom edge, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Seller Inventory # 27117

Bibliographic Details

Title: Democracy on Trial: The Japanese American ...

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good, fair

Edition: First Printing.

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Synopsis:

Based on interviews with camp survivors and new archival research, an account of the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II offers a new perspective on a tragic episode in contemporary American history. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Review:

Just two months after Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued an Executive Order to confine more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to makeshift camps for the remainder of World War II. With no crime other than their own ethnicity, these citizens, many of whom had had lived peacefully in the U.S. for generations, were forced from their homes and stripped of their jobs and property. Those with dual citizenship struggled with divided loyalties, while others worked to re-create their colorful traditions inside the desolate walls of the camps. Page Smith accompanies his thorough analysis of what happened and why with a study of Japanese-U.S. relations and a history of Japanese immigrants in America.