Keeper of the Concentration Camps
Author | : Richard Drinnon |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1989-01-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 0520909151 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780520909151 |
Rating | : 4/5 (151 Downloads) |
Download or read book Keeper of the Concentration Camps written by Richard Drinnon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Native Americans.