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Democracy on trial : the Japanese American evacuation and relocation in World War II by Page Smith( Book )

8 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 1,199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1942, following Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the U.S. Army to "exclude" "all persons" considered a threat to national security. In the final analysis these turned out to be some 110,000 Japanese Americans. Losing their jobs, their businesses, their personal property, and their homes, these "persons of Japanese ancestry"--72,000 of whom were U.S. citizens by birth - were first taken to temporary "assembly centers" (including stalls in converted racetrack stables) and then shipped to "relocation centers" in California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Arkansas, where many of them spent the next three years of their lives. In Democracy on Trial, Page Smith tells the dramatic story of the men, women, and children who endured this tragic chapter in American history. Democracy on Trial also exposes the remarkable - and unexpected - range of military, political, economic, racial, and personal motives of public figures such as General John DeWitt, who was in charge of the evacuation; U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle, who vigorously opposed the internment; Walter Lippmann, the influential liberal columnist, who warned that the whole Pacific Coast was "in imminent danger of attack from within"; Earl Warren, California Attorney General and later Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who at first opposed the evacuation but then bowed to political pressure; the editors of the Los Angeles Times, who warned that "a viper is a viper wherever the egg is hatched"; and J. Edgar Hoover, who argued that the Japanese American community did not pose a military threat. Drawing on interviews and archival research, Smith shows how behavior in the camps ranged from patriotic cooperation to outright resistance. Everyday life raised a whole host of unanticipated problems that demanded new forms of political, social, and even familial organization. Because the government barred the older Japanese-speaking generation from holding positions of authority in the camps, younger Japanese Americans gained power and status that they otherwise would not have had. At the same time, women gained equality in the camps, where they often did the same work as men. Thus relocation, which began by isolating Japanese Americans from the rest of American society, had the paradoxical effect of speeding up their assimilation, by breaking down the traditional immigrant social structure

Redeeming the time : a people's history of the 1920s and the New Deal by Page Smith( Book )

17 editions published between 1986 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,154 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Constitution, a documentary and narrative history by Page Smith( Book )

20 editions published between 1978 and 1987 in English and held by 1,136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examines the origins and growth of the Constitution and discusses its functions in American life

Jefferson : a revealing biography by Page Smith( Book )

9 editions published in 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,118 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

As a city upon a hill : the town in American history by Page Smith( Book )

26 editions published between 1966 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Excepting the family and the church, the basic form of social organization experienced by the vast majority of Americans up to the early decades of the twentieth century was the small town. This book examines the small town in American history and culture

The chicken book by Page Smith( Book )

10 editions published between 1975 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 923 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble fowl. As it traces the rise and fall of Gallus domesticus from the jungles of ancient India to the assembly-line hatcheries sprawled across modern America, this original, frequently astounding book passes along a trove of knowledge and lore about everything from the chicken's biology and behavior to its place in legend and mythology. The book includes lively discussions of the chicken's role in literature and history, the cruel attractions of cockfighting, the medicinal uses of eggs and chicken parts, the details of the egg-laying process, the basics of the backyard coop, recipes, and much more. Entertaining and insightful, The Chicken Book will change the way we regard this too often underappreciated animal

James Wilson : founding father, 1742-1798 by Page Smith( Book )

14 editions published between 1956 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rediscovering Christianity : a history of modern democracy and the Christian ethic by Page Smith( Book )

5 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 588 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Of a new future, for without it "society [will] slip into a kind of hell of selfishness and self indulgence ... where all is decadence and disintegration." In this timely and seminal work, Smith not only reclaims our past, but he guides us on the way to a brilliant hereafter

Tragic encounters : the people's history of Native Americans by Page Smith( Book )

19 editions published between 2015 and 2018 in English and Chinese and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This work is not offered in any sense as a history of the American Indians or even a comprehensive account of white-Indian relations. It is, rather, an effort to suggest the nature of that interchange, of its inherent drama and abiding human interest; and to trace the hold that Indian culture has had on the imagination of the European settlers who ventured to the part of the New World that became the United States"--

Religious origins of the American Revolution by Page Smith( Book )

7 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide