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.
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.. from Yale University and is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawai\'i.
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Stannard received his Ph.
Honor Killing is a great true crime story worthy of Dominick Dunne--both a sensational read and an important work of social history About the Author: David E.
Their moral courage united the disparate elements of the non-white community and galvanized Hawai\'i\'s rapid transformation from an oppressive white-run oligarchy to the harmonic, multicultural American state it became.
In the face of overwhelming intimidation from a cabal of corrupt military leaders and businessmen, various people involved with the case--the judge, the defense team, the jurors, a newspaper editor, and the accused themselves--refused to be cowed.
One hundred and fifty years of oppression came to a head in those sweltering courtrooms.
It is one of the most sensational criminal cases in American history, Stannard has rendered more than a lurid tale.
In the spectacularly publicized trial that followed, Clarence Darrow came to Hawai\'i to defend Thalia\'s mother, a sorry epitaph to a noble career.
Outraged, Thalia\'s socialite mother arranged the kidnapping and murder of one of the suspects.
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.
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
