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Examines the U.S. involvement with Islamic fundamentalists since the Eisenhower administration, and maintains that America's historic alliance with the Islamic right was largely to blame for Islamic terrorism in the 1990s.

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.