TY - JOUR AU - Togami, Cynthia N. AB - fivc seminal thinkers’ ideas on identity, mem- ican Racism, Peter Irons’s Justice at War: The abeth Dilling, and one on Grace Wick, but ory. and tradition is welcome. Story of the Japanese Internment Cases, and both (as well as a handful of others) are dis- Gary Okihiro’s Cane Fires: The Anti-Japan- cussed throughout. In several places, the OI,IVER B. POLLAK ese Movement in Hawaii. By Order of the views of Dilling and Wick are rehashed repet- University of Nebraska at Omaha President not only represents a valuable addi- itively, as are issues such as opposition to the tion to existing literature on the Japanese Lend Lease Act of 1941. That said, a topic American incarceration experience but goes such as this one is difficult to organize, and further to redefine and redirect future scholar- overall Benowitz handles it nicely. ly inquiries in Japanese American, presiden- This book is a must-read for scholars of Robinson, Greg twentieth-century American politics and tial, and Rooseveltian histories. The book will By Order of the President: FDR and women. Because of Benowitz’s adept ten- serve college-level Asian American, Ameri- the Internment of Japanese Americans dency to link the activities of the women she can TI - By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans JF - History: Reviews of New Books DO - 10.1080/03612759.2002.10526088 DA - 2002-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/by-order-of-the-president-fdr-and-the-internment-of-japanese-americans-G4Nw9LWYgq SP - 94 EP - 94 VL - 30 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -