infamy: the shocking story of the japaneseamerican internment in world war ii Archives

Western Lit: ‘Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese-American Internment in World War II’ Shows the Greatest Generation at Its Worst

by Eric Sandstrom November 9th, 2015December 16th, 2020

In his heartbreaking new book, Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese-American Internment in World War II, California writer Richard Reeves reminds us that wars have a frightening tendency to spawn racial prejudice. The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans has been relegated to a footnote in U.S. history for 70 years. Infamy is a not-so-gentle […]