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Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment. By Brian Masaru Hayashi. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. 328 pp.
Racial prejudice, the hysterics of war, and appalling government leadership are repeatedly used as the rationale behind Japanese- American internment during World War II. Brian Hayashi's book, "Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment, suggests the government was maybe not acting as adolescently as the previous excuses for internment rational would suggest but rather conducting the beginning stages of a much larger complex plan. Hayashi's suggestion that the governments decision for internment reaches beyond racism, wartime hysteria, and bad leadership is not a terribly new concept; but his induction of such specific domestic and international factors like land development and future foreign objectives of concerning an occupation in Japan is a more diverse approach when compared to other conventional writings or accounts of......

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