The Distance Between Our Names by Paul Richter - ISBN: 9781668031186
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Japanese immigrants’ harrowing fight for dignity amid savage discrimination.
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The Distance Between Our Names

The Untold History of America's War on Japanese Immigrants

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    13 October 2026

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Summary

A gripping historical account about the harrowing struggles of Japanese immigrants in the US during the years leading to World War II.

In 1872, a new Japanese government’s first diplomatic delegation to the United States was greeted with rapturous welcome in San Francisco. For over ten days of lavish parties, the city’s elite admired the emissaries’ silk robes and noble bearing and began forging what they expected would be a special relationship between ascendant Paci…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781668031186
ISBN-10:1668031183
Author:Paul Richter
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Simon & Schuster
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:13 October 2026
Weight:446g
Dimensions:19mm x 152mm x 229mm
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The Distance Between Our Names by Paul Richter - ISBN: 9781668031186
152 × 229 mm
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Critics Review

“A lucid exposé of a shameful episode in U.S. history that reverberates today.” * Kirkus Reviews *

About The Author

Paul Richter

Paul Richter has written about national affairs and foreign policy for four decades. As a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, he was based in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC, and reported from sixty countries. During his years in Los Angeles he was principal author of California and the American Tax Revolt: Proposition 13 Five Years Later. His last book was The Ambassadors: America’s Diplomats on the Front Lines. The volume won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon Award for Books of Distinction on the Practice of American Diplomacy. He lives in the Washington, DC, area.

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