Books Details
Author : George Takei Pages : 208 pages Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1603094504 ISBN-13 : 9781603094504
Books Descriptions
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's
childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World
War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and
America itself.Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star
Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at
war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home
into an uncertain future.In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was
rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or
thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under
armed guard.They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those
years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under
legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in
democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his
astonishing future.
