Contributor: Harry N. Scheiber Harry N. Scheiber is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and History, Emeritus, in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He also directs the School’s Institute for Legal Research and its Law of the Sea Institute, and is former director of its Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law. Previously he was professor of history at Dartmouth College and at the University of California, San Diego. A leading authority on constitutional and legal history, Scheiber is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the American Society for Legal History. He has been a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer, the Wallace Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hawai`i, and twice a Guggenheim Fellow. He is author or editor of fourteen books, including The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties, 1917-1921, recently republished; Earl Warren and the Warren Court; The State and Freedom of Contract; American Law and the Constitutional Order; Ohio Canal Era: and New Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law. Other books include Federalism and the Judicial Mind, and, most recently, several books on ocean law. He has published more than one hundred articles in journals of history, law, and the social sciences. --- Contributor: Jane L. Scheiber Harry N. Scheiber is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and History, Emeritus, in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He also directs the School’s Institute for Legal Research and its Law of the Sea Institute, and is former director of its Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law. Previously he was professor of history at Dartmouth College and at the University of California, San Diego. A leading authority on constitutional and legal history, Scheiber is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the American Society for Legal History. He has been a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer, the Wallace Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hawai`i, and twice a Guggenheim Fellow. He is author or editor of fourteen books, including The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties, 1917-1921, recently republished; Earl Warren and the Warren Court; The State and Freedom of Contract; American Law and the Constitutional Order; Ohio Canal Era: and New Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law. Other books include Federalism and the Judicial Mind, and, most recently, several books on ocean law. He has published more than one hundred articles in journals of history, law, and the social sciences.

As a reference for a long while to come, Bayonets in Paradise will give readers an understanding of the seriousness of the event [martial law], and the extent to which the people of Hawai‘i were abused. It could also give pause to those who think of the military as a bulwark of democracy in a time of chaos. If the generals get power, they will not be inclined to quickly give it back. Bayonets is, you can see, a big book about a big and otherwise underdeveloped vein of American history. The authors cast about for material far and wide, much to their credit. They strike an open-minded tone; their only apparent prejudice is for democratic constitutional government. --- The Scheibers’ exhaustive research of government documents and manuscript collections allowed them to trace an intriguing and ongoing tug-of-war between military and civilian officials in Washington DC and Hawaiʻi. Key players included military personnel, officials in the US Departments of War, Justice and Interior, the territory’s governor, attorney general, and delegate to Congress, and President Roosevelt. . . . The Scheibers expertly examine the legal challenges to martial law, which began in 1943 and demonstrated that judges upheld the supremacy of civilian authority and became increasingly sceptical of the military’s claim of the potential emergency. . . . This insightful study is a valuable contribution to Hawaiʻi’s history and America’s constitutional history. --- In Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawaiʻi during World War II, an extremely compelling and important book, Harry N. Scheiber and Jane L. Scheiber illustrate how fragile that relationship [between the security of the American people and their constitutional protections] can be. . . . Scheiber and Scheiber demonstrate a keen grasp of the evidence and offer a methodical and compelling analysis. More importantly, they also provide a clear understanding of how complicated the history is. . . . In the end the Constitution won. But the fact that military necessity subordinated it in the first place is a troubling issue that makes Bayonets in Paradise an important scholarly contribution. --- This copiously researched book, which reveals how Hawaii came to fall under martial law after Pearl Harbor and what it did to the lives of residents, is a must-read, not only for Hawaii history buffs, but for anyone who cares about civil liberties and constitutional rights. --- The Scheibers have produced a truly extraordinary book, as monumental in substance and importance as it is massive in length. Clearly a labor of love decades in the making, this massively researched volume is a towering example of outstanding scholarship, yet it is clearly written and organized and easily accessible to all. . . . A truly amazing and outstanding work of scholarship. Essential.