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- Aug 16, 2011
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"FDR’s pre-presidential writings about Japanese immigrants became the centerpiece of Robinson’s critically-acclaimed 2001 book, By Order of the President. Historians have hailed Robinson, today a professor of American history at the University of Quebec at Montreal, for showing the connection between Roosevelt’s views about Asians and his otherwise inexplicable decision to intern thousands of Japanese-Americans in detention camps during World War II, even though none of them had been engaged in espionage."