Kokomo Joe: The Story of the First Japanese American Jockey in the United States (Bison Original)

by JohnChristgau (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $26.30

  The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio Kokomo Joe Kobuki won race after race. His is a story of the American dream catapulting headlong into the nightmare of a nation gripped by wartime hysteria and xenophobia. His story is at once inspiring, deeply sad, and richly ironic.