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Author:

Close, Frederick Phelps, 1943- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xvii, 510 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Tokyo Rose,--1916-2006.
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)--San Francisco.--San Francisco.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Tokyo Rose: Origins of the Legend (Prewar) -- Baseball Paths and Two-Lane Blacktops: Youth at Full Speed (1916-1940) -- A Fateful Letter in Failing Light (1940-1941) -- 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 Perjurors: The FBI at Work (1948-1949) -- The Prosecution: United States v. Tokyo Rose (1949) -- The Defense: Iva Toguri v. Tokyo Rose (1949) -- The Verdict: United States v. Iva Toguri (1949) -- Alderson Federal Reformatory: Failed Appeals (1950-1959) -- The Quest for a Pardon (1960-2006).

ISBN:

1442232064 (ebook)
9781442232068 (ebook)
1442232056 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781442232051 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)869552645

LCCN:

2014003514

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)