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A fascinating, startling, and wise book. It will now be impossible to tell the story of the modern civil rights struggle or of the women's movement without seeking to understand the anxieties that flourished on Hawaii after Pearl Harbor. -- Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa. Packed with rich sources, complex ideas, and some amusing lines-and written with writers' craft as well as historians' insight-this book is an excellent example of both new and traditional history. -- Natsuki Aruga, Saitama University, Japan. A model of multicultural history-imaginatively researched, interpreted with discernment, and gracefully written. -- Harvard Sitkoff, University of New Hampshire

Table of Contents

Prologue: December 7, 1941
Introduction: Wartime Hawaii and American Identity
Chapter 1. Into the War Zone
Chapter 2. Culture of Heroes
Chapter 3. Hotel Street Sex
Chapter 4. Strangers in a Strange Land
Chapter 5. Fragile Connections
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

About the Author

Beth Bailey teaches American history and is the director of American Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of From the Front Porch to the Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. David Farber teaches American history at barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Chicago '68 and The Age of Great Dreams: American in the 1960s.

Reviews

The First Strange Place is in the great tradition of oral history and yet it makes marvelous use of archival records-I was reminded both of Studs Terkel's sensitive ear and of Shelby Foote's sweeping vision. Boston Globe