Honor Killing
Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case
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- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2006
Summary
In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects was scant and the trial ended in a hung jury. Outraged, Thalia’s socialite mother arranged the kidnapping and murder of one of the suspects. In the spectacularly publicized trial that followed, Clarence Darrow came to Hawai’i to defend Th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143036630 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143036637 |
| Author: | David E. Stannard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 459g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 141mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
“Combines superb courtroom drama with a sweeping view of a lush world fed by unfettered power and clamorous racism.” —New York Daily News
“First-rate history that works as a true-crime thriller and as a social and political history.” —Bryan Burrough, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate and author of Public Enemies
About The Author
David E. Stannard
David E. Stannard received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawai’i. A Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and American Council of Learned Societies fellow and a widely recognized authority on Hawai’ian history and culture, he has written five previous books, including American Holocaust- The Conquest of the New World.
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