The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, July 1st, 2005
Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment. By Brian Masaru Hayashi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 319. Introduction, abbreviations, prologue, note on sources, notes, acknowledgments, index. $35.00.)
Hayashi's prodigiously researched volume examines how the federal government during World War II tried and inevitably failed to impose a form of "democratic self-government" in the ten Japanese-American "relocation" camps that were established in the name of military necessity in remote areas of the western United States (two were in Arkansas). Hence the ...
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