CONCENTRATION CAMPS U.S.A.

Allen, Charles R., Jr.

Published by Privately published, 8vo., 1966

About this Item

8vo. 60p. Illustrated with seven black and white captioned photos of locations and buildings in the camps. Black and white photo of the author on the rear wrapper. Stapled booklet in white wrappers printed and decorated in black and with a stylized image of a concentration camp scene on the front panel and information about the author and the books he has written on the rear panel. Wrappers ever so slightly darkened, corners square and flat, no rust on the staples, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Charles R. Allen, Jr. was the first journalist to break the fact of the McCarran Act detention camps in his 1952 series of articles which appeared in the New Statesman, The Nation, and The New York Daily Compass. His Concentration Camps In The Usa in the New Statesman quickly became a famous piece of reportage that was carried in more than 40 languages by the world's press, radio and TV. Mr. Allen is the author of ways Heusinger of the Fourth Reich: The Step By Step Resurgence Of The German General Staff which has been published in 14 countries and soul over a million copies. His most recent works are German Hand On The Nuclear Trigger and Journey To The Soviet Trade Unions. A film writer as well, Mr. Allen is the co-author of the feature picture, The Moving Finger, winner of the 1963 San Francisco International Film Festival, as well as other productions. This is a chilling account of the incarceration of American citizens in concentration camps set up in Wittenberg and Florence, Arizona, and EL Reno, Oklahoma, as well as Allenwood, Pennsylvania; Avon park Florida; and Tule Lake, California. The McCarron Internal Security Act of 1950 was passed over the veto of President Harry Truman four months into the Korean war. The author, Senator Pat McCarron, Democrat of Nevada, was a supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy and chair of the Judiciary Committee during the 1940s and 1950s when fear of Communism was particularly strong. The act required Communists organizations to register with the U.S. government. Critics of the act argued that it infringed the first amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of association. Chapters in this book include the following: The Grievous Departure; Ready for the Roundup; Allenwood, Pennsylvania, 1952; The U.S. Bureau of Prisons; descriptions of each of the five concentration camps: Allenwood, Pennsylvania; EL Reno, Oklahoma; Florence, Arizona; Wickenburg, Arizona; and two lee lake, California; and The FBI and "Operation Dragnet".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CONCENTRATION CAMPS U.S.A.
• Publisher: Privately published, 8vo.
• Publication Date: 1966
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine