By Order of the President : FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans.
Robinson, Greg.
By Order of the President : FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (333 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. A Racial Fear Emerges -- 2. War Abroad, Suspicion at Home -- 3. FDR's Decision to Intern -- 4. Implementing an Undemocratic Policy -- 5. Covering a Retreat -- 6. Equal Justice Delayed -- 7. The President of All the People? -- Note on Terminology -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Using Roosevelt's own writings, his advisors' letters and diaries, and internal government documents, Robinson reveals the president's central role in making and implementing the internment of Japanese Americans and examines not only what the president did but why.
9780674042803
Roosevelt, Franklin D.-(Franklin Delano),-1882-1945.
Japanese Americans-Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Electronic books.
D769
940.53/089956073
By Order of the President : FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (333 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. A Racial Fear Emerges -- 2. War Abroad, Suspicion at Home -- 3. FDR's Decision to Intern -- 4. Implementing an Undemocratic Policy -- 5. Covering a Retreat -- 6. Equal Justice Delayed -- 7. The President of All the People? -- Note on Terminology -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Using Roosevelt's own writings, his advisors' letters and diaries, and internal government documents, Robinson reveals the president's central role in making and implementing the internment of Japanese Americans and examines not only what the president did but why.
9780674042803
Roosevelt, Franklin D.-(Franklin Delano),-1882-1945.
Japanese Americans-Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Electronic books.
D769
940.53/089956073