The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War

Name: The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War
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ISBN: 9780700619269

ISBN-10: 0700619267

ISBN-13: 9780700619269

Edition: 2013

Authors: Roger Daniels

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After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented "military necessity," ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry. As Roger Daniels movingly describes, almost all reluctantly obeyed their government and went peacefully to the desolate camps provided for them.Daniels, however, focuses on four Nisei, second-generation Japanese Americans, who, aided by a handful of lawyers, defied the government and their own community leaders by challenging the constitutionality of the government's orders. The 1942 convictions of three men--Min Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Fred Korematsu--who refused to go…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English