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On February 19, 1942, following Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Military successes in the Pacific, Leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized a fateful order. In the name of security, Exec Order 9066 allowed for the summation removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent using their West Shoreline homes and their incarceration under officer in camps. Amid the many histories and memoirs specialized in this shameful event, FDR's contributions have been seen as negligible. Now, using Roosevelt's own writings, his advisors' words and diaries, and interior government documents, Greg Robinson reveals the president's central role to make and employing the internment and examines not only the actual president have but why. Robinson traces FDR's prospect back to his formative years, and also to the first twentieth century's racialist view of ethnic Japanese in the us as immutably "foreign" and intimidating. These prejudicial sentiments, together with his constitutional beliefs and leadership style, contributed to Roosevelt's acceptance of the unprecedented mistreatment of American citizens. His hands-on participation and interventions were critical in deciding the nature, length of time, and effects of the administration's internment insurance policy. By Order of the Leader makes an attempt to explain how a great humanitarian head and his advisors, who were fighting a warfare to preserve democracy, may have carried out such a profoundly unjust and undemocratic insurance policy toward their own people. It reminds us of the energy of a president's beliefs to effect and determine public insurance policy and of the necessity for citizen vigilance to safeguard the rights of all against potential abuses.
