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Cargando... The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America (edición 2021)por Bradford Pearson (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America por Bradford Pearson
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) Hccpsk | Jan 14, 2023 |  While I found the football through line interesting, and it works as a way to provide a window into the central figures' lives before, during, and after this time period, I probably would have been just as happy with another entrée into the personal and social lives of the camps (but I'll leave that to other books). Instead what gripped me the most about this book was the detailed accounting of the people in the camps, and the people choosing to put them there. My only gripe is that the narrative was constantly jumping around in place and time. I think there are ways in which that format is engaging, but here I found it often disorienting. Nevertheless, including various timelines allowed the author to go into details of every central figure's history (and sometimes family history), present (in the WWII present), and future after the war, along with the history of Japanese immigration to America. This then gives readers the larger picture (internment, racism, war) alongside individual human stories. (Thank you Atria Books and GoodReads for the advance copy.) (  ) little-gidding | Jan 6, 2022 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Sports & Recreations.
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HTML:"One of Ten Best History Books of 2021." â??Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told "tale that ultimately stands as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit" (Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author) about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team. In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectatorsâ??yet there was little hope. That is, until the fall of 1943, when the camp's high school football team, the Eagles, started its first season and finished it undefeated, crushing the competition from nearby, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front linesâ??including some of the Eagles. As the team's second season kicked off, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided, and some were jailed for their decisions. The Eagles of Heart Mountain honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a "timely and utterly absorbing account of a country losing its moral way, and a group of its young citizens who never did" (Evan Ratliff, author of The Masterm No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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