An Unlikely Revolutionary : : Matsuo Takabuki and the Making of Modern Hawaii / / Matsuo Takabuki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Takabuki, Matsuo,
• MitwirkendeR: Grant, Glen,; Ogawa, Dennis M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Extraordinary Lives: The Experience of Hawaii Nisei
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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 - Matsuo Takabuki has been at the heart of many of the sweeping social, financial, and political changes that have fundamentally altered Hawaii 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 Hawaii's transformation from an isolated, agriculture-based territory to a highly diverse, competitive modern community. In September, An Unlikely Revolutionary was featured on the front page of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PROLOGUE: Keiki o Ka Aina -- CHAPTER ONE: From Hawai‘i’s Plantation to Europe’s Battleground -- CHAPTER TWO: Hawai‘i after the War: A Time for Change -- CHAPTER THREE: At the Heart of a Revolution -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Financial Revolution -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Nisei Trustee of the Bishop Estate -- CHAPTER SIX: Toward the Pacific Rim Century -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Reflections from inside Hawai‘i -- EPILOGUE: As Good as the Next Guy -- APPENDIX A: The 442nd Veterans Club: A President Looks Back on Its First Five Years -- APPENDIX B: An Address to the Hawaiian Civic Clubs -- APPENDIX C: Legacy of the Princess: An Address to the Oahu District Council of Hawaiian Civic Clubs -- APPENDIX D: Bishop Estate Today— The Rest of You Tomorrow -- APPENDIX E: Speech to National AJA Veterans Reunion -- APPENDIX F: 1991 Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate Service Awards -- Chronology -- Index