{"product_id":"9780895260512","title":"In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverything you've been taught about the World War II \"internment camps\" in America is wrong:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey did not target only those of Japanese descent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey were not Nazi-style death camps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine common-sense, national security profiling. The need for this myth-shattering book is vital. President Bush's opponents have attacked every homeland defense policy as tantamount to the \"racist\" and \"unjustified\" World War II internment. Bush's own transportation secretary, Norm Mineta, continues to milk his childhood experience at a relocation camp as an excuse to ban profiling at airports. Misguided guilt about the past continues to hamper our ability to prevent future terrorist attacks.\u003cp\u003eIn Defense of Internment shows that the detention of enemy aliens, and the mass evacuation and relocation of ethnic Japanese from the West Coast were not the result of irrational hatred or conspiratorial bigotry. This document-packed book highlights the vast amount of intelligence, including top-secret \"MAGIC\" messages, which revealed the Japanese espionage threat on the West Coast.\u003cbr\u003eMalkin also tells the truth about:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewho resided in enemy alien internment camps (nearly half were of European ancestry)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhat the West Coast relocation centers were really like (tens of thousands of ethnic Japanese were allowed to leave; hundreds voluntarily chose to move in)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhy the $1.65 billion federal reparations law for Japanese internees and evacuees was a bipartisan disaster\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow both Japanese American and Arab\/Muslim American leaders have united to undermine America's safety\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith trademark fearlessness, Malkin adds desperately needed perspective to the ongoing debate about the balance between civil liberties and national security. In Defense of Internment will outrage, enlighten, and radically change the way you view the past-and the present.","brand":"Regnery Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019797381360,"sku":"9780895260512","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780895260512_p0.jpg?v=1763857272","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780895260512","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}