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

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-520-08312-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 415 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irons, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).