- Summary
- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020, author.
- Published
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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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
"Loyals" and "disloyals" : Tule Lake, 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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index.
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 -- "Loyals" and "disloyals" : Tule Lake, 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.
