Author:
Close, Frederick Phelps, 1943-
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.
Descriptionxvii, 522 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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 v. Tokyo Rose (1949) -- The defense: Iva Toguri v. Tokyo Rose (1949) -- The verdict: United States v. Ira Toguri (1949) -- Alderson Federal Reformatory: failed appeals (1950-1959) -- The quest for a pardon (1960-2006) -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: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.
