Nisei

Bill Hosokawa, a native of Seattle, began his career in 1938 editing the Singapore Herald and then the Heart Mountain Sentinel (in a WWII relocation camp). He wrote for the Denver Post for thirty-eight years and the Rocky Mountain News for seven more, and published numerous books over the course of his life.

"Hosokawa cuts through the haze and, without any special pleading, in stark dispassionate reporting limns a classic laboratory case of governmental and human fallibilities suddenly converging in monstrous injustice." —The New York Times Book Review

• ; CONTENTS; Preface; Foreword; Prologue; PART ONE; The Early Years; 1; THE ORIGINS; 2; MEETING OF TWO NATIONS; 3; THE FIRST Issei; 4; THE VANGUARD ARRIVES; 5; THE SIGN OF THE DOLLAR; 6; WORK FOR WILLING HANDS; 7; NEITHER WHITE NOR AFRICAN; 8; NO LAND, NO IMMIGRATION; 9; WRETCHES, RASCALS AND CHURCHES; 10; THE MINIATURE GIANTS; 11; THE Nisei ARRIVE; 12; THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY; 13; THE BIRTH OF JACL; 14; THE LONG HOT SUMMER OF 1941; PART TWO; The Years of Travail; 15; DECEMBER 7, 1941; 16; THE UNHAPPY DAYS; 17; THE RISING CRY; 18; A FAULTY DIAGNOSIS; 19; THE EXODUS; 20; BEHIND BARBED WIRE; 21; A TIME OF BITTERNESS, VALOR AND CONFUSION; 22; THE DEDICATED JACL-ERS; 23; PROOF IN BLOOD; 24; TWO ANGRY IRISHMEN; PART THREE; The Years of Fulfillment; 25; JUSTICE IN THE COURTS; 26; HAWAII, THE CHANCE THAT WAS OURS; 27; WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKED; Epilogue; Guide to Pronunciation of Japanese Names; Afterword 1992; Afterword 2002; About the Author; Index;