Hawaii is the state where our president was born, but how did the United States come to claim it as its own? In this deeply researched narrative history, author Julia Flynn Siler (The House of Mondavi) recounts the dramatic, disturbingly dark story of the island nation's annexation, and the overthrow of its proud final ruler, by the U.S. This poignant saga of imperialist ambition and paradise lost unfolds with an appropriately lush appeal.
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