Whalers who fire cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their god-given right to whores an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband sugar barons, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode Aloha ‘Oe serenaded the first Hawaiian-born president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.
From the arrival of the New England missionaries in 1820, who came to Christianize the local heathens, to the coup d’état led by the missionaries’ sons in 1893, overthrowing the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, if often appalling or tragic, characters. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing. It’s another Bridge Street Book Club book! Our meeting was small but we covered a great deal in our discussion!
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