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A New Review of "American Inquisition"

By Eric Muller

Here is a review of my book "American Inquisition" by Jeremy Kuzmarov at History News Network. His suggestion that the book would have been strengthened by some discussion of Hannah Arendt and the "banality of evil" is a fair one. This is something I've thought about for a long time, but my views weren't (and still aren't) sufficiently formed for me to go public with them. My next big book project will be an account of the roles that lawyers played in facilitating the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, and I expect that this will be one major theme of that work. UPDATE: One small, but important, correction to the review. The book is a study of the bureaucratic adjudications of loyalty not of "Japanese citizens," as the review states, nor of the "Issei," or first-generation Japanese immigrants, but of the American-citizen "Nisei," or second-generation Americans of Japanese ancestry.

Full post as published by Is That Legal on January 02, 2008 (boomark / email).