Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case - Softcover

Stannard, David E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143036637 ISBN 13: 9780143036630

Publisher: Penguin USA, 2006

Synopsis

Honor Killing In 1951 an aristocrat accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, her mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered. The ensuing trial, Clarence Darrow's last, exposed the shocking realities of a Hawaiian "paradise."

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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 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143036637
• ISBN 13: 9780143036630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496