Title Tokyo Rose/an American patriot : a dual biography / Frederick P. Close.

Publication Info.

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials	EBSCO Ebook	Downloadable
Rocky Hill cardholders click here to access this title from EBSCO

Description	1 online resource (xvii, 522 pages) : illustrations.
	data file rda
Series	Scarecrow professional intelligence education series ; 7
	Scarecrow professional intelligence education ; 7.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Close explores Toguri's character and decisions by placing her story and conviction for treason in the context of U.S. and Japanese racial views, Imperial Japan, and Cold War politics.
Contents	Baseball paths and two-lane blacktops: youth at full speed (1916-1940) -- A fateful letter in failing light (1940-1941) -- Tokyo Rose: origins of the legend (prewar) -- Collision with Japan: before Pearl Harbor (1941) -- At war and on her own (1942) -- The Toguris back home: internment (1942-1945) -- Barely surviving: a typist at Radio Tokyo (1943) -- A new career in broadcasting: Zero hour (1943-1944) -- Tokyo Rose: the legend of the radio siren (wartime) -- Black marketeer: the destruction of Imperial Japan (1944) -- War's end (1945) -- The scoop (1945) -- CIC and FBI investigations: exoneration and release (1946-1947) -- Into the Cold War: a furor grows (1947-1948) -- The perjurers: the FBI at work (1948-1949) -- The prosecution: United States volume Tokyo Rose (1949) -- The defense: Iva Toguri volume Tokyo Rose (1949) -- The verdict: United States volume Ira Toguri (1949) -- Alderson Federal Reformatory: failed appeals (1950-1959) -- The quest for a pardon (1960-2006) -- Epilogue.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Tokyo Rose, 1916-2006.
	Tokyo Rose, 1916-2006. (OCoLC)fst00110634
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	Japanese Americans -- Biography.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Radio broadcasting and the war.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Biography.
	Trials (Treason) -- California -- San Francisco.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
	HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
	Collaborationists. (OCoLC)fst00867081
	Japanese Americans. (OCoLC)fst00981441
	Propaganda. (OCoLC)fst01078957
	Radio broadcasting and war. (OCoLC)fst01087275
	Trials (Treason) (OCoLC)fst01156419
	California -- San Francisco. (OCoLC)fst01204481
	Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
	US-Soldat.
	Pazifikkrieg 1941-1945.
Chronological Term	1939-1945
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form:	Print version: Close, Frederick Phelps, 1943- Tokyo Rose/an American patriot. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010 9780810867772 (DLC) 2009028243 (OCoLC)427757163
ISBN	9780810874664 (electronic bk.)
	0810874660 (electronic bk.)

-->

Permanent Link

Add a Review

Title Tokyo Rose/an American patriot : a dual biography / Frederick P. Close.

Copies

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings