Justice At War - The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases

Informationen zum Autor Peter Irons is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Earl Warren Bill of Rights Project at the University of California! San Diego! and the author of The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court (1988). Klappentext "Justice at War" irrevocably alters the reader's perception of one of the most disturbing events in U.S. history--the internment during World War II of American citizens of Japanese descent. Peter Irons' exhaustive research has uncovered a government campaign of suppression! alteration! and destruction of crucial evidence that could have persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down the internment order. Irons documents the debates that took place before the internment order and the legal response during and after the internment. Zusammenfassung This study relates one of the most disturbing events of American history - the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. It documents the political debate that preceded the internment order and uncovers a governmental campaign to suppress and destroy crucial evidence. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. "Let's Not Get Rattled" 2. ''An American Citizen Is an American Citizen'' 3. "Be As Reasonable As You Can" 4. "Am I an American or Not? 5. "We Don't Intend to Trim Our Sails" 6. "We Could Have You Inducted" 7. "These Cases Should Be Dismissed" 8. "The Suppression of Evidence" 9. "Something Worthy of the Torah" 10. "No Longer Any Military Necessity" 11. "The Printing Stopped at About Noon" 12. "The Court Has Blown Up" 13. "Watergate Hadn't Happened Yet" Epilogue: "This Was the Case of a Lifetime" Sources Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Peter Irons, Peter H. Irons, Irons Peter
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.1993
• EAN: 9780520083127
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08312-7
• No. of pages: 415
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, LAW / International, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LAW / Public, HISTORY / Military / United States, Warfare & defence, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Warfare and defence, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General