Johnny Wilson: First Hawaiian Democrat

by Bob Krauss

Entrepreneur, impresario, engineer: Johnny Wilson was all of these, in addition to being one of Hawai'i's most formidable politicians. This is the first biography of John Henry Wilson, whose career spanned the first half of the twentieth century and the wide gulf between Hawaiian monarchy and Hawai'i statehood. Born in 1871, the son of Queen Liliuokalani's marshal, the part-Hawaiian, part-Tahitian, part-Scot, part-Irish road contractor cum music promoter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824815777
• ISBN13: 9780824815776
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.