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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War IIby Eric L Muller
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. This is the only study of the Japanese American internment to examine the complex inner workings of the most draconian system of loyalty screening that the American government has ever deployed against its own citizens. At a time when our nation again finds itself beset by worries about an "enemy within" considered identifiable by race or religion, this volume offers crucial lessons from a recent and disastrous history. Review:Combining intensive archival research and brilliant analysis, Eric Muller gives us another example of bad news from the good war. —Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati, Emeritus, and author of Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II Synopsis:From the author of "Free to Die for Their Country" comes the story of the internment of 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry in 1942, and the administrative tribunals that had been designed to pass judgment on those suspected of being disloyal. Synopsis:When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates th About the AuthorEric L. Muller is George R. Ward Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Japanese Americans before the War Chapter 3. Presumed Loyal, Presumed Disloyal Chapter 4. Pressures on the Presumption of Disloyalty Chapter 5. The Loyalty Questionnaires of 1943 Chapter 6. Processing Loyalty at the Japanese American Joint Board Chapter 7. Processing Loyalty at the Provost Marshal General's Office Chapter 8. Processing Loyalty at the War Relocation Authority Chapter 9. Processing Loyalty at the Western Defense Command Chapter 10. Defending (and Distorting) Loyalty Adjudication in Court Chapter 11. Conclusion 000 Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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