Honor Killing

Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case

David E. Stannard

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Penguin
02 May 2006

Biography; True crime; History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Social groups; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Local history

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 Thalia's mother, a sorry epitaph to a noble career.

It is one of the most sensational criminal cases in American history, Stannard has rendered more than a lurid tale.

One hundred and fifty years of oppression came to a head in those sweltering courtrooms.

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. 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.

Honor Killing is a great true crime story worthy of Dominick Dunne-both a sensational read and an important work of social history

By: David E. Stannard
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 207mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 459g
ISBN: 9780143036630
ISBN 10: 0143036637
Pages: 466
Publication Date: 02 May 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case

"""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"