The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War

Acknowledgments

{ xi } acknowledgments Although it does not take a village to make a book, scholarship in the Internet age has become more collaborative. My chief intellectual debts incurred in writing this book are to Barbara Takei, who modified my views about the camp at Tule Lake, and to Peter Irons’s trailblazing scholarship since 1983, as noted in the text. I profited greatly from critical readings of the first two chapters by Eric Muller and of single chapters by Eileen Tamura and by Anna Tamura, who are not related. Harry and Jane Scheiber were gracious hosts when I put forth the nucleus of this book in a Constitution Day lecture at Berkeley in 2010. Although I am now separated from my home university by two-thirds of a continent, University of Cincinnati librarians Sally Moffitt and Dan Gottlieb, and James Hart of the university’s law library , each provided key assistance. Another continuing source of information and consistently good advice is Art Hansen. A great advantage of being in the Pacific Northwest, apart from the presence of my grandsons and their parents, is the ability to draw upon the wisdom, assets, and friendship of Tom Ikeda, whose Densho team is creating the outstanding online archive of Japanese American history and culture. Among those who have assisted me in the creation of the book in hand are Jasmine Alinder, Margo Anderson, Allan W. Austin, Lori Bannai, Tom Crouch, Stan Falk, Art Hansen, Don Hata, Lane Hirabayashi, John Howard, Kris Lindenmeyer, Karen Korematsu, Dale Minami, Brian Niiya, Dwight Pitcaithley, Greg Robinson, Linda Tamura, Tetsuden Kashima, and Allan Winkler. At the University Press of Kansas, Mike Briggs commissioned what became this book in 2003 and waited, patiently, until I cleared my desk of prior commitments. Once the actual writing began, in 2012, he provided counsel and encouragement. Peter Hoffer was a supportive series editor. In the production process Production Editor Kelly Chrisman Jacques guided the flow with clarity, dispatch, and occasional humor; Susan Ecklund edited the copy and Mary Brooks read proof without unnecessary fuss; and Kathleen Rocheleau provided a useful index. I was particularly pleased with Art Director Karl Janssen’s choice of the Lange image for the cover, and I hope that xii { Acknowledgments } Publicity Manager Rebecca Murray Schuler and Marketing Director Mike Kehoe persuade lots of folks to buy the book. Finally, and most important, I attest that for more than half a century, Judith, on an almost daily basis, and in crisis times almost hourly, has interrupted her own work and leisure to listen, read, react , mark up, and counsel. She has been an integral part of whatever bears my name. ...