"An outstanding resource that provides a clear and concise history of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II."—Alice Yang Murray, University of California, Santa Cruz

"A readable and penetrating account of America's tragic experience in Vietnam by one of the nation's leading diplomatic historians. Hunt brings to this account the insights of a specialist in both American and East Asian history—a combination few can match."—Michael J. Hogan, Ohio State University

"This informative, insightful, and sobering study deserves the attention of all who would understand American Indian policy, not just in Jackson's period but in our own."—Howard Lamar, Yale University

"Wood writes with remarkable clarity about a subject that has vexed historians for decades. Illuminating, subtle, provocative, The Origins of American Slavery explains the evolution of a system of permanent bondage based on race."—Carol Berkin, author of First Generations