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For a million soldiers, sailors and marines, Hawaii was the "first strange place" on a journey to war - and to the new American post-war society. Drawing on documents, diaries, memoirs and interviews, this book shows how these changes were tested and explored in the environment of wartime Hawaii.

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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

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

The First Strange Place

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    A Paperback / softback by Beth L. Bailey, David Farber


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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 26/04/1994
      ISBN13: 9780801848674, 978-0801848674
      ISBN10: 0801848679
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      For a million soldiers, sailors and marines, Hawaii was the "first strange place" on a journey to war - and to the new American post-war society. Drawing on documents, diaries, memoirs and interviews, this book shows how these changes were tested and explored in the environment of wartime Hawaii.

      Trade Review
      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

      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

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