Shaping History: The Role of Newspapers in Hawaii 9780824864279

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: “To Exhibit Truth in an Attractive Form”: An Establishment Press Arrives—1834–1850
1. Ka Lama: “The Light” Is Brought to Hawai‘i
2. The Solemn Responsibility of Dissent
3. The Polynesian: In the Service of America and the Kingdom
4. The English Flag and the English Language
5. God Gives Way to Mammon: The Mahele of 1848
PART II:“Fiery Polemic Contests” for the Public’s Support— 1850–1887
6. The Honolulu Times Welcomes the City of Honolulu
7. The Chinese Arrive
8. A Prophet Without Profit: Fornander Topples Judd
9. The Advertiser Enters History
10. A Hawaiian Nationalist Press Is Born
11. “A New Era Has Dawned”: Sugar Is King
12. The Politics of Health
PART III: Nationalists versus the Oligarchy: An Uneven Battle—1887–1899
13. A Pan-Pacific Dream
14. Robert Wilcox, “the Napoleon of Printers’ Lane”
15. Revolution and the Suppression of Freedom of Speech
16. The Republic Burns Down Chinatown
PART IV:“Here to Stay”: A U.S. Territory— 1900–1941
17. Annexation and the Pacific Cable
18. The 1909 Strike and the Japanese Language Press
19. Respected Residents Become the Enemy: World War I and the Germans
20. Suppressing the News and Contributing to a Massacre
21. The Three Rs—Reading, ’Riting, and Racism
22. “Reclaiming” Waikîkî for the “Aloha Spirit”
23. Getting Away With Murder: The Massie Case
24. Hilo’s “Bloody Monday”: The Tribune-Herald and the Voice of Labor
PART V: “Passed for Publication”— 1941–1945
25. A Wartime Press and the Paradox of Censorship for Freedom
26. AJAs: American Patriots
PART VI: The March toward Statehood— the 1940s and 1950s
27. “Dear Joe”: Lorrin Thurston Writes to Joe—Stalin or Farrington?
28. The Honolulu Record and the Art of Muckraking
29. The Hawaii Seven: Journalists in Jeopardy
30. Ka Leo Reports on the Golden Rule
31. Watch Them Grow: Tourism and Suburban O‘ahu
32. Statehood and the Star-Bulletin
PART VII :The Turbulent 1960s
33. The Business of Newspapers
34. The Popular Columnist
35. Sports and Journalism: “The Social Fabric”
36. Above Ground: The Battle for Diamond Head
37. Underground: The Battle for Hawai‘i’s Soul
38. Women in the News: From Society to Social Causes
PART VIII:From Satellite City Halls to a Satellite Universe— 1970–1976
39. Memories of Maui
40. Corporate Economics and Chain Papers
41. Fighting the Newspapers to a Draw: Frank Fasi and the Dailies
42. The Public Opinion Poll
43. Anger and Wit: The Political Cartoon
44. Hawaiian Sovereignty and a Satellite Universe, 1976
Bibliography
Index
About the Author