OHQ vol. 114, no. 2 women’s issues, and a woman’s determination to ‘clean up’ politics” (p. 146). Jensen’s analysis suggests the need for more attention to the ways in which women integrated into partisan electoral politics after suffrage. Lovejoy’s “social justice theory of civic, national, and international health as a remedy to the systematic social diseases of discrimination and inequality” emerged most fully in her pioneering work for transnational medical relief (p. 6). Her visits to war-torn France in 1917–1918 fostered a powerful critique of war, rooted in its negative effect on women. The efforts of women doctors,midwives,and social workers in Europe “underscored her belief that women were capable, equal citizens with men and that women could cross national, class, and professional divides to unite for progressive action” (p. 122). She continued to promote women’s public health activism across the world until her death in 1967. Under her leadership, American Women’s Hospitals and Medical Women’s International Association supported medical relief and public health programs across the globe,promoted women’s empowerment, and contributed to transnational women’s networks — organizations and activists working across political borders to promote social welfare, peace, and feminism — that historians are beginning to discover. The book is an immensely valuable addition to the history of women, social reform, and medicine, with much to offer both undergraduate readers and serious scholars. Jensen seems to have tracked down every archival source, every newspaper article, and every lead that might offer insight into Lovejoy’s life and work.Despite such thorough research,the book cannot quite capture Lovejoy’s subjective world. Her two marriages play a minor role in the narrative, serving as evidence of her fierce independence. Her response to her young son Freddie’s death (likely from tainted milk) is portrayed as political, not personal; it sharpened her commitment to governmental publichealtheffortsandofferedapowerfultool for convincing others. We can only wish that Lovejoy, a prolific writer (of speeches, articles, and books),had left us more of her interior life. Marisa Chappell Oregon State University Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River by Linda Tamura University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2012. Notes, bibliography, index. 346 pages. $24.95 paper. The recent death of Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye — awarded the Distinguished Cross for bravery in the closing weeks of World War II — is yet another reminder of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the all-Nisei (second generation Japanese) troop, the most decorated military unit in American history. Inouye, who lost his right arm in northern Italy,was among 22,000 Nisei who served in the armed forces during the war. Linda Tamura’s Nisei Soldiers BreakTheir Silence,which focuses on Oregon’s Hood River Nisei, tells the larger story of discrimination and racism that Japanese Americans experienced during the first half of the twentieth century. Nisei Soldiers is a wrenching account of the racism and bigotry that has always afflicted the United States. The centerpiece to Nisei Soldiers is oral histories the author conducted with thirteen surviving Nisei veterans from the Hood River Valley and some sixty Nisei families and Hood River community members. Tamura supplements this sophisticated use of oral history with copious research in published sources. The effect is a compelling story of“young men who served their country yet were unwelcome in their hometown” (p. xviii). The striking aspect of the book is the hatred directed against people of Japanese descent (Nikkei) who were concentrated in the Pacific coastal states and numbered less than 1 percent of the nation’s OHQ vol. 114, no. 2 population in 1940.Oregon’s Nikkei numbered 4,071, or .33 percent, with those in Hood River County numbering 462 in 1940, less than 3 percent of its inhabitants. When America’s Japanese were sent to concentration camps after Pearl Harbor, 73 percent of them were native-born American citizens. The attacks against the Japanese who immigrated to the Hood River Valley predate the attack on Pearl Harbor by more than two decades, beginning when the Issei (first generation ) began to prosper as orchardists. Pearl Harbor, however, significantly amplified those attacks.What had been latent prejudice turned into...