Book Reviews:Students will write two book reviews, minimum 500 words each, in which they summarize the content of the book, assess the author’s strengths and weaknesses and evaluate published reviews of each book. A fuller description of this assignment and an example of a strong book review are posted under the Content tab and Advice and Information folder. Papers must be saved and submitted as
...[Show More]
Book Reviews:
Students will write two book reviews, minimum 500 words each, in which they summarize the content of the book, assess the author’s strengths and weaknesses and evaluate published reviews of each book. A fuller description of this assignment and an example of a strong book review are posted under the Content tab and Advice and Information folder. Papers must be saved and submitted as either a .doc, .txt or.rtf file and submitted to the appropriate drop box folder under the Assignments tab
I have attached two examples, one is the last book review i did was the first. Another is the example provided. Follow all guidelines availed as well
Complete the review in 4 pages.
The book is The Train to Crystal City
EXCERPT...
Book Review of “The Train to Crystal City”
Russell, Jan
Jarboe. The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange
Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II.
Simon and Schuster, 2016.
One of the most renowned journalists known as Jan Jarboe Russell
undertook an assignment to investigate the rumors that the United States
government had built an internment camp that was used to hold
Japanese-Americans against their will in the 1940’s. This whole exercise led to
the publishing of the book titled, The
Train to Crystal City, in which the author explores the lives of the
‘prisoners’ in the camp. The camp was populated with many people of Japanese
origin and a significant number of Germans and Italians. At the backdrop of war
between Japan and America at the Pearl Harbor, the President had issued a
directive for all Japanese people to be detained at various alienation camps
opened in the America (Russell, 4). According to the U.S Constitution and basic
human rights values, this was one of the worst cases of racial mistreatment,
which failed to respect the rights of the children born in America as citizens
by birth.
The author employs
the
END OF EXCERPT...
[Show Less]