THE HISTORY OF GENOCIDE

Awards & Accolades Likes 29 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2019 New York Times Bestseller by George Takei , Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott ; illustrated by Harmony Becker ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 16, 2019 A powerful reminder of a history that is all too timely today. Awards & Accolades Likes 29 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2019 New York Times Bestseller A beautifully heart-wrenching graphic-novel adaptation of actor and activist Takei’s (Lions and Tigers and Bears, 2013, etc.) childhood experience of incarceration in a World War II camp for Japanese Americans. Takei had not yet started school when he, his parents, and his younger siblings were forced to leave their home and report to the Santa Anita Racetrack for “processing and removal” due to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. The creators smoothly and cleverly embed the historical context within which Takei’s family’s story takes place, allowing readers to simultaneously experience the daily humiliations that they suffered in the camps while providing readers with a broader understanding of the federal legislation, lawsuits, and actions which led to and maintaine...