My War Against the Land of My Ancestors

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During World War II, Captain Petruzzi served in Italy as a military government and Partisan Liaison officer. He was the "Baby Governor" of Naples, "ruled" half of the Anzio beachhead, was a witness to all major battles, and probably the first American to see Mussolini hanging.

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A New and Rare Look at the Italian Campaign of World War II.......2001-03-01

"My War" reads like a fast-paced novel, yet it is a true, autobiographical account of the wartime experiences of a young American. Daniel J. Petruzzi leaves his job as a newspaper reporter in Pennsylvania to enter the Army and winds up as an officer with the American Military government during the Italian Campaign of World War II. These memoirs are unique in two important ways. First, Petruzzi at the time was already a talented writer who obviously recorded many of the details of the story as it unfolded, not relying on memory to capture the action and feelings of the time. Second, because of his ancestry and fluency in the language he developed a strong bond with and compassion for the Italian people including Partisans, sometimes while working behind enemy lines. Petruzzi writes with an easy style. He addresses the story to his two grown sons in a warm and personal way that makes the reader feel part of the family. This is a book that is hard to put down. The generation that saw the battles of World War II is rapidly fading away, and future generations will be thankful for Americans like Daniel J. Petruzzi---soldiers who were there and who give us assurance that those times will not be forgotten.

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Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The subjects, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made important contributions to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, and their influence. James emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their mathematical achievements. The book is organized chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains biographical sketches of six mathematicians. The men and women James has chosen to portray are representative of the history of mathematics, such that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed. Ioan James is a professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Topological Topics (Cambridge, 1983), Fibrewise Topology (Cambridge, 1989), Introduction to Uniform Spaces (Cambridge, 1990), Topological and Uniform Spaces (Springer-Verlag New York, 1999), and co-author with Michael C. Crabb of Fibrewise Homotopy Theory (Springer-Verlag New York, 1998). James is the former editor of the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series and volume editor of numerous books. He is the organizer of the Oxford Series of Topology symposia and other conferences, and co-chairman of the Task Force for Mathematical Sciences of Campaign for Oxford.

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Good book.......2004-03-04

This book is a collection of short biographies of notable mathematicians from Euler to von Neumann. It does a good job of explaining both a mathematicians background and the significance of their contributions to mathematics. Great to read through or as a reference to have on the shelf.

Very good historical account of lives.......2003-10-22

The only reason that this book doesn't get 5 stars is because of the fact that not enough emphasis is placed on the achievements of the mathematicians in terms of their mathematics.

However, this does not take away from the fact that is is exteremely well researched, laid out and presented. We get a meaningful insight into how these geniuses (genii?) lived and that fact that they were quite ordinary people with the same levels of hardship (and in some cases even more) as the rest of us. Perhaps an improvement could be made on further mathematicians, both past and present.

Still recommended reading.

Learn how mathematicians interacted with each other.......2003-05-19

When reading about the great ones of mathematics, I always enjoy short biographies rather than long ones. If the biographer is required to fill a large section of a book, then they tend to cover more detail than I really care for. While I do enjoy some details about the personal life of a mathematician, anything more than just a few morsels tends to detract from their accomplishments in mathematics.
James strikes the perfect balance in describing the lives of these great historical figures. Each biographical sketch is less than ten pages and he covers their life from birth to death. One valuable thing that he does is give their complete names, which is often omitted from biographies. In fact, despite all of my reading about the people of mathematics, there were some whose full names I had not known until I read this book.
The emphasis is on the lives of the people, and the general concepts of the mathematics that they created, rather than the specifics. No formulas are used in the explanations. Personal and professional interactions are a large part of the life of nearly all mathematicians, and from these biographies, we learn many of the specifics of how contemporaries reacted to each other. As is always the case, the full range of human foibles are displayed as the lives of the mathematicians unfold.
The lives of these sixty mathematicians are described in chronological order according to their birth years. Given that they all began their mathematically productive lives at different ages, this leads to some degree of overlap in both directions. Nevertheless, it is possible to easily trace the development of the major mathematical ideas as they are nurtured from early germs to towering oaks.
Mathematicians are people who find themselves in a social and political environment that they must cope with and sometimes just survive in. In this book, you will learn about sixty of them who made a major contribution, sometimes starting from a point of privilege, and other times only after great struggle. It is well worth reading for pleasure and can also be used as a resource for a course in mathematical history.

Published in the recreational mathematics e-mail newsletter, reprinted with permission.

Captivating!.......2003-04-07

Don't miss these captivating tales of the life and the times of mathematicians starting from the period of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and right up to recent times, at least up to and including the Cold War. Even if you aren't in math, I think you are likely to be caught up in the drama of the various lives, times, and events. The writing is fast paced and engaging, much like that of Constance Reid's books: "Hilbert", or "Courant"... Over the tumultous historical periods, it has been said that mathematicians have been more likely than others to have been uprooted in the upheavals of history, perhaps because they are concerned with theories and ideas that are more universal. But their lives are still much affected by the times and the events of history: The French Revolution(Galois, Poisson, Fourier...), the Napolionic Wars(Cauchy, Abel...), the period of Bismarck and Nationalism in Europe(Weierstrass, Cantor, Lie...), the Russian Revolution(Alexander, Kolmogorov...), the two World Wars, and the crisis period between WWI and WWII(Banach, Hadamard, Courant, Hilbert...), and the Cold War(von Neumann, Wiener...). The pictures on the cover give you a sample of the profiles in the book: G. Polya, K. Weierstrass, A. N. Kolmogorov, N. Wiener, S. Kovalevskaya, and S.-D. Poisson. Even if you won't get to meet them in person (I was a guest at George Polya's ninetieth birthday!), this book is the next best thing.

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As a successful, loving father, Neil Russell had to deal with one of the most difficult and important responsibilities he had ever faced as a parent: speaking to his children about his cancer. Diagnosed at age 47 when his children were only 11 and 13, this is Neil's emotional account of the disease's life-changing impact on himself and his family. Can I Still Kiss You? is both informative narrative and interactive journal; it will help parents speak to their children about the cancer that has come into their lives. The prospect of sitting down with a child in an attempt to make sense out of a disease that we barely understand ourselves is daunting. Russell provides a chapter-by-chapter series of questions and answers dealing with diagnosis, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy during and after treatment. Through his own experience and research he presents clear, straightforward questions followed by answers that are understandable to children. Additional space encourages parents to add personal responses to children and children to write back expressing fears, concerns or encouragement-in essence, a "message board" for sharing emotions that are difficult to articulate. Some of the questions he addresses are: What is cancer?, When I get older will I get cancer because you did?, and Can I still kiss you? This insightful book ends with a warm and powerful essay written by Neil's son, Trevor. Can I Still Kiss You? reveals the remarkable inner strength and courage of a family dealing with a parent in need.

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A contemporary bible of vegetarian cooking filled with fresh and fabulous ideas for today's fine dining

Vegetarian cuisine is now more popular than ever. Increasing health and ethical concerns-and an appetite for adventure-have sparked a growing demand for attractive, appetizing, and creative vegetarian dishes that hold their own with any meat choice on the menu. This book shows how to harness traditional cooking methods and techniques to produce exciting, elegant meatless creations bursting with freshness and flavor. Moving from appetizers and side dishes to delicious entrees, breads, and desserts, Professional Vegetarian Cooking is filled with dynamic ideas for building flavor with the help of vegetable stocks and a global array of herbs, spices, oils, condiments, and more. A far cry from the rough-hewn, grain-heavy approach that once typified standard vegetarian fare, it shares recipes and tips that open up a whole new world of taste for the vegetarian palate-complete with instructions that are clearly written and easy to follow.
* Explains how to integrate vegetarian dishes into every phase of a meal
* Includes 200 ready-to-use recipes
* Lists best sources of purveyors and mail order products

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Brilliant Collection of Inventive and Original Recipes.......2005-05-27

Wow, chef Bergeron is a genius. Yes, a genius. This book contains dozens and dozens of sophisticated and inventive recipes using vegetables. Wow, and Wow again. A treasure trove!!!! Hey, home cooks out there, you will amaze your friends with any of these recipes. I only wish I had purchased a copy of this book sooner.

Die Hard Mainstream Chefs, Just Try It!.......2003-03-26

A little bias because Ken is a friend of mine, Ken is a modest down to earth guy---No pun intended. I am not a vegetarian by any means but every recipe that I have used is awesome. You really have to try the Oyster Fried Mushrooms, Watermelon Catsup or The Sea Czar Dressing. I have worked side by side with Ken, who is an incredible wealth of knowledge and expierience as a Vegan. Ken is the 1st World Vegan Gold Medalist at The Culinary Olympics in 92. I am very proud to be considered his friend and very proud of this book.

All I can say is it's simple, easy to read and healthy! Don't let the "Professional" in the title fool the average person because it is for everyone.The knowledge and eye opening this will give you to the vegetarian/vegan world is priceless.

Professional Vegan Cooking.......2000-07-27

All of the recipes in this book are not only vegetarian they are vegan. They are also scrumptious. I have tried several and it is well worth the trouble of having to scale down the recipes (since this is really created for restauranteurs everything serves 10).

Truly great example of why the question --don't you get bored eating vegetables all the time--is so funny!

Steph

Vegan Haute Cuisine for Everyone.......1999-12-29

I am a serious home cook who has made this book her kitchen bible. The recipes contained in this book are scrumptious and remarkably free of all animal products (including eggs and dairy). As vegan cookbooks go, this book is unique. The culinary results are delicious and visually appealing. The author is a professional chef who knows how to layer in complex, yet pleasing flavors into dishes for spectacular results. Ken Bergeron really knows how to stimulate taste buds that have grown weary of the same-old, same-old. Truly innovative cuisine like this doesn't come around every day. I've made dozens of recipes presented within these pages with incredible success. Over the holidays, I followed the author's menu suggestions. I made the festive holiday menu for Christmas dinner and the hors d-oeuvres menu for an elegant cocktail party. Most of the invited guests were non-vegetarians with sophisticated taste-buds--definitely not the dry lentil loaf and brown rice crowd. I was delighted to receive enthusiastic raves and dozens of requests for the recipes. The fried oyster mushrooms, vegetable walnut and pecan pate, baby bella mushroom risotto and maple nut tart were especially big hits, but everything was devoured with gusto. This book is truly avant garde--I believe vegan cuisine will be the everyday norm for most American tables by the end of the next century. Even Time Magazine--hardly a granola rag by any stretch of the imagination-has recently predicted this dietary megatrend will happen in the near future. Undoubtedly, this book will help lead the way. No home should be without it. And, anyone making a profession out of feeding the public--pay attention, please! Customers will continue to want to live large into the next century, but that doesn't necessarily mean they want big slabs of dead animals oozing blood on their plates. Exotic fruits and vegetables, prepared with all the care and attention given to flesh-centered cuisine, will fit the bill just fine. Many trendsetters are looking for this now, but millions will follow.

Vegan Haute Cuisine for Everyone.......1999-12-29

Neither Meat nor Fish (Ne Carne ne Pesce)

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Neither Meat nor Fish (Ne Carne ne Pesce)
Sergio Mei
Manufacturer: Boscolo Etoile
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About 90 dishes are presented illustrating Sergio Mei's great creativity using a vegetarian palate. Inspired by Mediterranean cuisine, every recipe satisfies the ever more persistent need to find alternative solutions to meat and fish entrees. Sergio Mei manages to present all the dishes without any sacrifice to taste. It is a book that will inspire; practical and full of original recipes. While this book is intended for the professional, home cooks seeking vegetarian alternatives will find it equally useful and inspiring.

Do you want your college or other food service operator to serve more vegetarian options?: An article from: Vegetarian Journal

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Do you want your college or other food service operator to serve more vegetarian options?: An article from: Vegetarian Journal
Ron Pickarski
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This digital document is an article from Vegetarian Journal, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1170 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Do you want your college or other food service operator to serve more vegetarian options?
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Date: May 1, 2006
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Plenty's programs bring soy production to underdeveloped countries.(Vegetarian Action)(Plenty International Soy Promotion and Agricultural Assistance Program ): An article from: Vegetarian Journal

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Plenty's programs bring soy production to underdeveloped countries.(Vegetarian Action)(Plenty International Soy Promotion and Agricultural Assistance Program ): An article from: Vegetarian Journal
Cecilia Peterson
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This digital document is an article from Vegetarian Journal, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 572 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Plenty's programs bring soy production to underdeveloped countries.(Vegetarian Action)(Plenty International Soy Promotion and Agricultural Assistance Program )
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Brief, concise, and filled with helpful photos, this introductory guide provides essential information on all aspects of horse blankets.

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Quilts for kiddies

Quick yet effective

Quick Quilts for Kids: 20 colorful projects for babies and children
Elizabeth Keevill , and Jayne Davis
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
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ASIN: 0873498534

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Quilts for kiddies.......2007-04-25

Wonderful book! I loved it! It's very detailed. Photographs are nice quality. Very pleased!

Quick yet effective.......2007-03-17

20+ quilt patterns. The patterns are interesting but quick - you really can pull it all together in a weekend. (Which is good for a working mum with little patience :-). Some require pre-planning, cutting and even some applique ahead of time.

I adore the pattern for "Baby's Love Blanket". Simple, effective quilt with a few little hearts - I felt I had accomplished something pretty in next to no time. The speed was certainly in the size - just 50x42cm all up - a perfect little quilt for a crib or pram. A pattern to have up your sleeve for that last minute baby-gift.

When I can get the kids sorted, I intend to make the "'Me and Mine' Quilt" - patches of their pictures on a plain quilt. Something I will treasure after they have grown too far to appreciate the simple things.

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"The first time a store manager called about Eva, Miriam had thought it was a mistake." Eva Baruch, 11 years old, has been caught stealing three times. The fourth time, her widowed mother takes drastic action and moves them from their East Village apartment to a small town in Upstate New York. Miriam explains that their new home will allow them a "normal" life; at the root of her decision, however, is a nagging fear that Eva's kleptomania is just the beginning of a bigger problem, "the snag in the stocking that leads to the run, the computer virus (it had happened in the law firm where she worked) that becomes visible too late." The transition is not easy for either of them: Miriam works long hours to support herself and her daughter, while Eva must weather the twin storms of loneliness and impending adolescence. Then Eva meets Burl, a former lawyer who has withdrawn into the isolation of his grandparents' farm to raise bees.

For a while he had sat around cooking up grand plans--a cooperative farm, sustainable agriculture, or a commercial beekeeping operation, maybe even migratory hives that he'd load into a semitruck and drive across the country, following the bloom. Or an ostrich farm. He liked how odd they looked, somewhere between bird and beast, and they were supposed to be the new, low-fat red meat. Sometimes when he let his thoughts wander far enough, he'd had a farming and business partner who was also a mate.

Unfortunately, the woman of his choice has married someone else, he's let the farm go to seed, and now he makes a living writing how-to books and tending his hives as a hobby only. When young Eva comes into his life and begins helping with the bees, however, he is drawn reluctantly into her life and that of her mother.

Elizabeth Graver throws these three isolated people together and then wisely steps out of the way to let them work on each other. As the story moves forward, she allows her characters to look back, gradually weaving in memories that explain Burl's choices and Miriam's fears. Best of all, she avoids the obvious resolutions; instead, The Honey Thief plays out much as life does--messy, painful at times, with no guarantees but plenty of reason to hope. --Alix Wilber

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Elizabeth Graver's first novel, Unravelling, was hailed on publication as "exceptional" (The New York Times Book Review), "a pleasure" (The New Yorker), and "exquisitely poignant and sensual" (The Boston Globe). Now, in her second novel, she proves herself to be a major voice in American fiction. The summer that eleven-year-old Eva is caught shoplifting (for the fourth time), her mother, Miriam, decides the only solution is to move out of the city to a quiet town in upstate New York. There, she hopes, they can have the normal life she longs for. But Miriam is bound by a past she is trying to forget, and tensions escalate. It is only when Eva meets a reclusive beekeeper that she-and her mother-can find their way back to each other, and can begin life with renewed promise. A haunting novel of memory and desire, The Honey Thief reveals the healing power of friendship and the ineradicable bonds of mother and child.

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A Wonderful Treat!.......2007-09-01

This is a quiet book in which to lose oneself. I was immediately caught-up in the mother-daughter relationship, the move upstate, etc. It's character driven [my favorite type of read!], and Graver portrays her characters in a fully nuanced fashion. I felt as if I were a neighbor -- mostly of Burl's [I'm not sure why....] -- probably the bees, honey, nature & the flawed nature of man/mankind/womankind. I just finished this book,and I already miss it, as well the people. Reading this novel helped me to realize how impossibly fast we live in NYC as opposed to life upstate. I've gone upstate so often -- actually seeking a quieter [almost more normal] cadance that life offers. I think that Miriam hoped to find this, as well. I so enjoyed reading about Francis, and Graver csptures his "situation" with authenticity. It is truly an engrossing book, and I recommend this without hesitation. It offers much more than I've written......

Quiet and complex.......2007-06-17

This is a quiet book, not terribly suspenseful and eventful, but it's built on character and good to add into the mix for a little dose of reality. The story follows Eva, a young girl with, you guessed it, a habit of stealing jars of honey from the edge of the local beekeeper's property. Her parents have a pretty nasty history, and as the story unfolds we learn that she might have inherited the disease that drove them apart. Eva is about as complicated as a child gets, and it's easy to develop strong feelings for her and her mother as the book moves along.

Enjoyable!.......2006-11-13

It took me awhile to get into this book having just finished Elizabeth Berg's wonderful "The Year of Pleasures" and Susan Miller's "Lost in the Forest." The story grew on me slowly, though, and I wound up not being able to put it down one Sunday until I finished it. I really came to like all of the characters and felt somewhat disappointed that their lives didn't turn out at all as I would have liked. It's books like this (and the other two) that make me wish for sequels with definitive endings. Good lazy afternoon reading!

The honey thief stole my heart.......2006-03-21

Best line in the book: "Again the thunder clapped. Still Eva stood in the field. Maybe, she thought, a girl struck by lightning would split down the middle and become two girls, and then she'd have a friend."

I had to take a breath after that one--very powerful image. The longing Eva feels to fill a void, to have a friend to assuage her grief is palpable.Yet, one can sympathize with Miriam's frustration over trying so hard to make ends meet and meet Eva's needs while balancing the child's "itchy palms" wanting to steal things to fulfill some missing ingredient with her own attempts at a life. The intertwining of the mother and the daughter is done beautifully by Graver. In a summer when honey seemed to be the main topic (Secret Life of Bees) I was inundated with the symbolism of the bees and their hives and their honey. I just happened upon the books back-to-back. Both were great but as a whole, I was more moved and entranced by Graver's work.

Not Anne Tyler, but..........2005-10-14

I enjoyed this book greatly, more for the writing than for the tale, which does work quite well, actually. The premise is solid, and the characterizations of Eva and Burl are fleshed out with craft and credibility. I don't know any beekeepers personally, but I am well-acquainted with reclusive and shut-off men in their 40s who would respond to an eleven year old bundle of energy with similar conviction.

The pain evident in the lives of the characters, from Miriam's deep wounding from her husband's mental illness, to Burl's empty, drifting ache from Alice's decision to move on, propels the novel without becoming maudlin or trivial.

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The Honey Thief.
Elizabeth. GRAVER
Manufacturer: NY: Hyperion
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ASIN: B000UD7ZQO

LOT 3 NOVELS THE HONEY THIEF, THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB,& UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.

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LOT 3 NOVELS THE HONEY THIEF, THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB,& UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.
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The Honey Thief
Elizabeth Graver
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The Honey Thief
Elizabeth GRAVER
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Gasp!.......2002-04-27

Van Gogh's letters from this, his most creative period, are not possibly a one read collection. Nor, do they necessarily demand an appreciation for his work. Historians of psychiatry and students of creativity and manic depression should not allow this primary source information to be overlooked.
Van Gogh's incestuous relationship with his brother, Theo, was covered dramatically in the film 'Vincent and Theo.' These letters are less pathological but certainly prove the interdependency, which no doubt increased unbearably upon Vincent's death. (Theo was dead a year later and had been chained to the wall in an assylum.)
But this is equally a series of untoward rapture for the natural world and the ordinary people he encountered there. We are introduced, in story and paintings, to some of the most memorable subjects of Van Gogh's accumulated works, Gaughan, Dr. Gauchet, The Chief Orderly in his assylum, The Postal Worker. There are also self-portraits and their impossibly anguished stories.
This is a 5-star work. There is no comparable work for insight into the man and the paintings. It also explains that inescapable discomfort and exaltation felt by studying his work.
Short and concise, it covers more than a biography and includes all the Provence masterpieces.

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Van Gogh: Letters From Provence
Martin Bailey
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Recommended for adults as well.......2006-01-09

I am an educator and have read several books in this series and I highly recommend it. A lot of Americans seem to be unaware of the extent of the Japanese internment during WWII. For example that not only were many of them US citizens but many others would also have been citizens were it not for the Exclusion Act. The author points out that while there were curfews for those of German and Italian decent they were not singled out as traitors who deserved internment. Many of the statements made against Japanese Americans by high ranking goverment officials were very racist, but at the time expressed popular sentiment. Those who were interned were forced to sell their all of the property with about a week's notice and general for pennies on the dollar.

This book is basically a brief presentation of the facts. The author tries to present all sides. Dates and names of court decisions are given. Legal jargon is explained. The subject is followed from the eve of WWII right up to the Reparations Act of 1988. There is a final chapter about prejudice in general in which the author gets a bit emotional uses inductive reasoning. I also got a bit confused reading the dissenting judges' opinions and the index could have been a bit more inclusive, otherwise it's an excellent book.

Basic Knowledge- Japanese internment camps.......2000-08-08

This book is valuable, not solely for it's specific court case, but also for its abundance of beginner information on Japanese internment camps. "Korematsu" is definately written for young readers, but if anyone older can look past the very simple language, it is great for an introductory book. Especially since books on this subject are so rare. Really, it left me thirsting for more advanced information on the subject of Japanese internment camps. This book could definitely be a productive teaching tool for students of elementary school through junior high school.

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