Keeper of the Concentration Camps

Disciplines History United States History

About the Book

Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Native Americans.

About the Author

Richard Drinnon is the author of Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (1980) and is Professor Emeritus of History at Bucknell University.