I am so excited to see this books impact on the world. Review Quotes Winner of the 2020 Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature! Winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work! They Called Us Enemy is truly beautiful - moving, thoughtful, important, engaging, and stunningly rendered. What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answer these questions, George Takei joins cowriters Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime. They Called Us Enemy is Takeis firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, his mothers hard choices, his fathers tested faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.

Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten relocation centers, hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his fathers - and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. Now with sixteen pages of bonus content from George Takei and his co-creators: a new afterword plus a behind-the-scenes tour of the process of researching, writing, drawing, and promoting They Called Us Enemy, featuring historical documents, scripts, sketches, photos, and more! George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, and outspoken commitment to equal rights.

Book Synopsis The New York Times bestselling graphic memoir from actor/author/activist George Takei returns in a deluxe hardcover edition with bonus material! Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself - in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.

About the Book Includes 16 pages of bonus content from George Takei, new afterword, behind-the-scenes, historical documents, scripts, sketches and photos-Product description.

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