Author: Tom Coffman

  • UH Press Presents: I RESPECTFULLY DISSENT: A BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD H. NAKAMURA

    Tom Coffman’s portrait of Supreme Court justice Edward Nakamura is both an insightful biography and an engrossing political history of Hawai‘i. The Nisei life-story may sound familiar: born to immigrant parents, graduated from McKinley High, veteran of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, attended University of Hawai‘i under the GI Bill, active during Statehood years; but…