And as you write, utterly American - what's your phrase? They - playing baseball and football, marching bands on the Fourth of July, county fairs. SIMON: Boy, so many heroes to talk about. SIMON: You do add you're not comparing them to Dachau or Auschwitz at the same time.īROWN: Absolutely. Calling the camps what they were, concentration camps, is one step towards correcting the sort of abusive language that has surrounded that unfortunate incident in our history. Why is that important to you?īROWN: I think the language surrounding the incarceration of the Japanese Americans during World War II has been unfortunately euphemistic. In the first couple of pages, you say, no. SIMON: We often hear these places that held Japanese Americans referred to as internment camps. Brown, thanks so much for being with us.ĭANIEL JAMES BROWN: Hi.
Why would a democratic government fighting fascist, racist dictatorships imprison more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941? And why would so many of the young people in those camps later fight so valiantly for the country that locked them up? Daniel James Brown, author of the previous best-seller "The Boys In The Boat," joins us now. "Facing The Mountain," the new book by Daniel James Brown, keeps posing questions to the reader.
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