Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case Paperback - 2006
by David E. Stannard
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."
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 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
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- Title Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case
- Author David E. Stannard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date May 2, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143036630 / 0143036637
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.54 x 1.08 in (21.34 x 14.07 x 2.74 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Hawaii
- Library of Congress subjects Darrow, Clarence, Hawaii - History - 1900-1959
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
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"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
Citations
- New York Review of Books, 03/23/2006, Page 25
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