Book End: Weekend of August 19, 2011

by Alex on August 19, 2011
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It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the week’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. First Book-Oahu Fundraiser Do you love Chinese food (fast-food style)?  Do you support giving free books to impoverished children?  If you deny either of these…I don’t want to know you!  But if you agree to […]

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Book Review – Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai’i

by Alex on August 20, 2010
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As regards Hawaii I take your views absolutely, as indeed I do on foreign policy generally. If I had my way we would annex those islands tomorrow. –Theodore Roosevelt, 18971 Today is the observance of Statehood Day here in Hawai’i which means many things to many people.  Last year Hawaii celebrated fifty years as the […]

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