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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Eric L. Muller. Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. (The Chicago Series in Law and Society.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001. Pp. xx, 229. $27.50.

As a beginning law professor at the University of Wyoming, Eric L. Muller recalled attending a presentation by a local historian about Japanese-American draft resisters who, along with their families, had been incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. The story of their resistance, trial, conviction, and eventual pardon came as a surprise to Muller, who had in law school studied the landmark test cases of other Japanese Americans that had made their way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Muller's unfamiliarity with the draft resisters, and the eventual publication of this book itself, hold important clues about how we have remembered this episode in American history. Many Americans today know at least the basic details of the fate of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast who were forcibly placed in concentration camps during World War II. High school and college history texts generally underscore the unjust treatment of "loyal" Japanese Americans who despite their circumstances persevered, and the courage of those who served in the U.S. military in highly decorated Japanese-American combat units. The obscurity of the draft resisters (and other dimensions of the camp experience) is linked to the efforts by U.S. government officials and certain Japanese-American individuals to craft a sanitized version for public consumption even before the war ended—a version that has held considerable sway ever since. . . .

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