RRI00-17 Richard Reeves - Infamy.nfo
General Information
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Title: Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Author: Richard Reeves
Read By: James Yaegashi
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Nonfiction - History - War - World War II - Politics - Social - Japan
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Chapters mostly
Source: OneClick MP3
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 17
Total Duration: 10:11:05
Total MP3 Size: 210.26
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 48 kbit/s 32000 Hz Mono
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
Best-selling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account
of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese
aliens during World War II.
Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed
the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring
parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military
rule. The US Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans,
sometimes giving them less than 24 hours to vacate their houses and
farms. For the rest of the war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned
in primitive camps.
In Infamy, the story of this appalling chapter in American history is
told more powerfully than ever before. Acclaimed historian Richard Reeves
has interviewed survivors, read numerous private letters and memoirs,
and combed through archives to deliver a sweeping narrative of this
atrocity. Men we usually consider heroes - FDR, Earl Warren, Edward
R. Murrow - were in this case villains, but we also learn of many Americans
who took great risks to defend the rights of the internees. Most especially,
we hear the poignant stories of those who spent years in "war relocation
camps", many of whom suffered this terrible injustice with remarkable
grace.
Racism, greed, xenophobia, and a thirst for revenge: a dark strand in
the American character underlies this story of one of the most shameful
episodes in our history. But by recovering the past, Infamy has given
voice to those who ultimately helped the nation better understand the
true meaning of patriotism.
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