Journalist Mary Jo McConahay gave a reading and talk at Bookshop West Portal last night on her new book The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II, a fascinating history I knew very little about. .I hadn't known, for example, that the United States went to Peru to bring ethnic Japanese to internment camps with the complicity of the Peruvian government. I met a member of the Naganuma family, who had been among those taken--and turned out to be neighbors of the author--just a block away in Noe Valley!
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