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Title: Early postwar books on the Japanese-American internment Author: Place: Various places Publisher: Various publishers Date: 1947-1949 Description: • Grodzins, Martin. Americans Betrayed: Politics and the Japanese Evacuation University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1949. First Edition. Original cloth in Dust Jacket.445pp. • Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660 (Columbia University Press, 1947) Second printing. Original decorative cloth, 209pp., lacking the Dust Jacket. Okubo’s now-classic autobiographic memoir of her wartime internment (see other Okubo listing in this auction) Together with Mine Okubo’s autobiography, Grodzin’s book was one of the first postwar books to deal with the Japanese-American internment, an exhaustive study, by a University of Chicago Professor, of the racist “pressure politics” behind the “disastrous political decision” which led to “citizens driven out of their homes and herded into barbed-wire pens, their places of business searched, their personal possessions seized, their reputations publicly maligned…” Lot Amendments Condition: VEry good Item number: 271733a