Allegiance: A Novel

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4.7
6 reviews
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400
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A sophisticated legal thriller that plunges readers into the debate within the US government surrounding the imprisonment of thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

When the news broke about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Caswell “Cash” Harrison was all set to drop out of law school and join the army… until he flunked the physical. Instead, he’s given the opportunity to serve as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. He and another clerk stumble onto a potentially huge conspiracy aimed at guiding the court’s interests, and the cases dealing with the constitutionality of the prison camps created to detain Japanese-Americans seem to play a key part. Then Cash’s colleague dies under mysterious circumstances, and the young, idealistic lawyer is determined to get at the truth. His investigation will take him from the office of J. Edgar Hoover to an internment camp in California, where he directly confronts the consequences of America’s wartime policies. Kermit Roosevelt combines the momentum of a top-notch legal thriller with a thoughtful examination of one of the worst civil rights violations in US history in this long-awaited follow-up to In the Shadow of the Law.

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4.7
6 reviews
Anne Dennis
May 27, 2016
True-to-life historical fiction of the Supreme Court internment camps for American citizens of Japanese heritage written by great-great-grandson of FDR...good story, compelling narration...predictable villains, though. (I suspected those culpable in the plot from the beginning of the read.) However, the close approximation to the WW II world of unclear loyalties rings true, especially today, and a great read.
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frank tortorella
April 11, 2018
Like a train leaving the station this novel starts off slowly but it gains speed and complexity. The final result is an outstanding read.
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Guy (guyofhavens)
May 20, 2016
Great read. I could see it as a movie, as a legal thriller.
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About the author

Kermit Roosevelt is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Born in Washington, DC, he attended Harvard University and Yale Law School. Before joining the Penn faculty, he clerked for DC Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams and Supreme Court Justice David Souter, and practiced law in Chicago. His experiences clerking and practicing law informed his first novel, the national campus bestseller In the Shadow of the Law (FSG, 2005).

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