*Starred Review* As shock waves raced across America after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the military to round up and incarcerate more than 100,000 West Coast Japanese American men, women, and children. Most were born in America, and many were successful business owners or prosperous farmers. Families were forced to abruptly abandon their beloved homes, pets, stores, land, bank accounts all that they worked so hard to secure and cultivate to be transported to grim, drafty barracks in the desolate desert, their civil rights violated, their identity, dignity, and patriotism impugned. Amid this cruel, racist operation, the War Relocation Authority hired professional photographers to document the entire appalling process, preeminent among them the renowned, soon outraged Dorothea Lange. These photographs reside in the National Archives, where zealous and diligent image-hunters and authors-of-conscience Cahan and Williams (Richard Nickel: Dangerous Years: What He Saw and What He Wrote, 2015) mined astonishingly expressive and informative treasures. In this unique, richly produced volume, they showcase 170 magnificent black-and-white pictures accompanied by an exceptionally illuminating narrative to tell the staggering stories of the resilient, courageous people Lange and others so sensitively photographed. Cahan and Williams even tracked down survivors, who share haunting memories. The result is an intensely revelatory and profoundly resonant book of beauty and strength, history and caution.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2016 Booklist