American Inquisition

Description:

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.

subjects: Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945,  History,  Internal security,  Japanese Americans,  Nonfiction,  Politics and government,  World War, 1939-1945,  World War II,  Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850,  World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924,  Military,  Japanese americans, evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945,  United states, politics and government, 1933-1945,  World war, 1939-1945, japan,  World war, 1939-1945, united states,  Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

Places: United States

Times: 1933-1945,  20th century