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Marrin, Albert

Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II

246 pp. | Knopf | October, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-553-50936-6 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-553-50937-3 $20.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-553-50938-0
(2) 4-6 Marrin places his subject in a comprehensively broad context. The narrative opens briefly with a prologue set during Pearl Harbor, but then the author backtracks for several chapters, delivering a crash course in Japanese and Japanese American history, with a special focus on racism and the uneasy tension between liberty and security during wartime. Generous quotations and photographs are integrated throughout. Reading list, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017

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