The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had

By the end of World War I the Hawaiian Islands had become what a Japanese guidebook called a "Japanese village in the Pacific, " with Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations.

Unlikely Liberators is the action-filled story of the men of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

Noguchi's private life was no less passionate than his artistic career. The book describes his romances with many women, among them the dancer Ruth Page, the painter Frida Kahlo, and the writer Anaïs Nin.

President Harry S. Truman himself said as much. Masayo Duus has written a book that is truly remarkable, not because it so effectively affirms this lesson once more, but because she manages to tell so much more.

It's a startling story that Masayo Duus has uncovered almost by accident: Iva waited on her at the Toguri family store in Chicago in 1967, and the plain person didn't fit the sensational image.