New York Times Bestseller!A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor author activist George
Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping
tale of courage country loyalty and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds
worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But
long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his
own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home
into an uncertain future. In 1942 at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt every
person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten
relocation centers hundreds or thousands of miles from home where they would be held for
years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years
behind barbed wire the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism his mother's
hard choices his father's faith in democracy and the way those experiences planted the seeds
for his astonishing future. What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? When the
world is against you what can one person do? To answer these questions George Takei joins
co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a
lifetime.
