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Title: Allegiance
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Kermit Roosevelt
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 08-19-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A sophisticated legal thriller that plunges listeners 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.
Members Reviews:
The More Things Change.....
Allegiance is a legal thriller, but if youâre expecting a best-seller of the John Grisham genre, a page-turning, plot-driven race to the who-dunnit ending, look elsewhere. Roosevelt, the great-great grandson of T.R. and a professor of Constitutional Law at Penn Law School, makes you think, confront issues, address the grey areas of the law, and he does this slowly. He writes elegantly. I found myself rereading paragraphs just to absorb their beauty. At the center of Allegiance is the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, and the novel includes many historical characters of that time: J. Edgar Hoover, Supreme Court Justices Frankfurter, Black, Douglas, Atty. General Francis Biddle, etc. But the questions, loyalties, and issues raised go far beyond the detainment and make us realize that although this took place 75 years ago, things havenât changed much.....Guantanamo, building walls (and making the Mexicans pay for it), anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Roosevelt is clearly a man of great talent and I hope he will use it to ...
This is much more than just another murder mystery in an historical setting. Rather, it is a novel of the coming age of a young man as a clerk in the Supreme Court in 1941-46. It is also a novel of manners and mores of Philadelphia society with a strong dose of reality about the deportation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast to nasty camps inland. On the whole, perhaps the book may be regarded as a modern version of John O'Hara's From the Terrace. It was a very enjoyable read; the murders seemed almost incidental to the story. I would have rated this book at five stars, but the protagonist was doing too much agonizing, too many internal monologues, and the alleged conspiracy did not seem plausible, while the ending was just too pat. Mr.
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Title: Allegiance
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Kermit Roosevelt
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 08-19-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A sophisticated legal thriller that plunges listeners 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.
Members Reviews:
The More Things Change.....
Allegiance is a legal thriller, but if youâre expecting a best-seller of the John Grisham genre, a page-turning, plot-driven race to the who-dunnit ending, look elsewhere. Roosevelt, the great-great grandson of T.R. and a professor of Constitutional Law at Penn Law School, makes you think, confront issues, address the grey areas of the law, and he does this slowly. He writes elegantly. I found myself rereading paragraphs just to absorb their beauty. At the center of Allegiance is the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, and the novel includes many historical characters of that time: J. Edgar Hoover, Supreme Court Justices Frankfurter, Black, Douglas, Atty. General Francis Biddle, etc. But the questions, loyalties, and issues raised go far beyond the detainment and make us realize that although this took place 75 years ago, things havenât changed much.....Guantanamo, building walls (and making the Mexicans pay for it), anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Roosevelt is clearly a man of great talent and I hope he will use it to ...
This is much more than just another murder mystery in an historical setting. Rather, it is a novel of the coming age of a young man as a clerk in the Supreme Court in 1941-46. It is also a novel of manners and mores of Philadelphia society with a strong dose of reality about the deportation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast to nasty camps inland. On the whole, perhaps the book may be regarded as a modern version of John O'Hara's From the Terrace. It was a very enjoyable read; the murders seemed almost incidental to the story. I would have rated this book at five stars, but the protagonist was doing too much agonizing, too many internal monologues, and the alleged conspiracy did not seem plausible, while the ending was just too pat. Mr.