Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism

by Richard Drinnon

Book Overview

Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Native Americans.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520057937
• ISBN13: 9780520057937
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.