Harcourt, Brace & World [Published date: 1961]. Hard cover, 501 pp. [From front jacket flap] This is an important and revealing book about America's newest state, a Hawaii that fun-loving tourists have never seen.Hawaii Pono "Hawaii the excellent" will remain the definitive book on the fiftieth state for many years to come.Here is the vivid story about the varied races that came to Hawaii to form a new culture- the native Hawaiians who tried to recapture the past; the haoles, the white men who brought religion and education and oligarchy to the Islands; the Chinese and their search for economic independence; the Japanese and their struggle for acceptance; and the Filipinos, the last of the major ethnic groups. Here is the story also of the colorful native empire that fell to the Americans, the entrepreneurs who built prosperous plantations worked by men and women who were nearly slaves; the stern missionaries whose children believed in a kingdom on earth more than a kingdom in heaven, and who maneuvered to possess it; the dedicated teachers, whose patron saint was John Dewey, bringing knowledge and therefore hope to the children of Hawaii. Lawrence Fuchs's dramatic narrative of an adventure in democracy is rich with names and dates and facts, many of them reported for the first time.