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An unlikely revolutionary : Matsuo Takabuki and the making of modern Hawai'i : a memoir
- Title
- An unlikely revolutionary : Matsuo Takabuki and the making of modern Hawai'i : a memoir / by Matsuo Takabuki ; assisted by Dennis M. Ogawa with Glen Grant and Wilma Sur.
- Author
- Takabuki, Matsuo, 1923-
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1998.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 237 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Anyone interested in understanding the last fifty years of Hawai'i's economic and political history would do well to examine the life of Matsuo "Matsy" Takabuki. Actively involved in the Democratic Party during the post-World War II years, Takabuki was among a generation of Americans of Japanese Ancestry to rise to political office in the 1950s. A confidant of Governor John Burns, a member of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of Honolulu, a business associate of developer and financier Chinn Ho, a trustee of the Bishop Estate - Takabuki has been at the heart of many of the sweeping social, financial, and political changes that have fundamentally altered Hawai'i in the last half century.
- An Unlikely Revolutionary is Takabuki's own story, told in his characteristically straightforward manner, of his life and work as one of the "movers and shakers" behind Hawai'i's transformation from an isolated, agriculture-based territory to a highly diverse, competitive modern community.
- Series Statement
- Extraordinary lives
- Uniform Title
- Extraordinary lives
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Dennis M. Ogawa and Glen Grant -- Prologue. Keiki o Ka Aina -- Ch. 1. From Hawai'i's Plantation to Europe's Battleground -- Ch. 2. Hawai'i after the War: A Time for Change -- Ch. 3. At the Heart of a Revolution -- Ch. 4. Financial Revolution -- Ch. 5. Nisei Trustee of the Bishop Estate -- Ch. 6. Toward the Pacific Rim Century -- Ch. 7. Reflections from inside Hawai'i -- Epilogue. As Good as the Next Guy -- App. A. 442nd Veterans Club: A President Looks Back on Its First Five Years -- App. B. Address to the Hawaiian Civic Clubs -- App. C. Legacy of the Princess: An Address to the Oahu District Council of Hawaiian Civic Clubs -- App. D. Bishop Estate Today -- The Rest of You Tomorrow.
- ISBN
- 0824820835
- 9780824820831
- 0824820231
- 9780824820237
- LCCN
- 97048949
- OCLC
- ocm38073351
- 38073351
- SCSB-379387
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library