Cross Current: A Tale of Racial and Military Conflicts Leading to the World War Ii Internment of Japanese-Americans Hardcover - 2008

Kenn Sherwood Roe, of Redding, California, is a retired Shasta Community College instructor. He has been a high school teacher, a college administrator, a rancher, a park ranger, a Navy Reservist, a public relations man for TV, and an author of nine novels with G.P. Putnam's and Random House, as well as over 250 articles and short stories. He once worked at CBS Television City, Hollywood, on the Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Art Linkletter, and I Love Lucy shows; and, was involved in productions with three personalities who had not yet found their ultimate niche: Walter Cronkite, Johnny Carson, and one Ronald Reagan. An amateur naturalist and western history buff, Roe had ancestors who crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the California Gold Rush. As a youth, he was blessed with parents who divided their time between a vacation cottage on the rugged Pacific Coast and a home in the Mother Lode country of the Sierras, where he was student body president of both his high school and his community college. Roe received a B.A. from Stanford University, a Fulbright exchange scholarship, and a Master's from the University of Nevada, where he fell in love with the history and the mystique of the desert. He is married, has three children, with grandchildren, and a white toy poodle, Roebe Le Chien, who enjoys the seashore as much as does his master, Kenn.