By George Takei, Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott. A memoir recounting Takei’s childhood experience of being imprisoned in an American concentration camp during World War II. Tells the story of how in 1942 at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his entire family was forced from their home and shipped to one of ten “relocation centers,” hundreds of miles away, where they would be held under armed guard. This firsthand account recalls 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. Read more.