I Am an American: A True Story of the Japanese Internment - Hardcover

Stanley, Jerry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517597861 ISBN 13: 9780517597866

Verlag: Crown Pub, 1994

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Book by Stanley Jerry

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Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Young Shi Nomura was among the 120,000 American citizens who lost everything when he was sent by the U.S. government to Manzanar, an interment camp in the California desert, simply because he was of Japanese ancestry.

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* Jerry Stanley was born in Highland Park, Michigan in 1941.  When he was seventeen years old, he joined the air force and was stationed in California, where he has lived ever since.

* Once out of the air force, Jerry went to college, during which time he supported himself as a rock-'n'-roll drummer on the weekends.  He received both his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arizona.

* Jerry is now is a professor of history at California State University in Bakersfield, where he teaches courses on the American West, the American Indian, and California history.  In addition to his children's books, Jerry is the author of numerous articles for both scholarly journals and popular magazines.

* Among Jerry's hobbies are bowling, racquetball, fishing, d

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0517597861
• ISBN 13: 9780517597866
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102