Michener's publication of Hawaii was timely, occurring only three months after Hawaii was granted statehood.
Yet A. Grove Day states that Michener's interest in writing a book about the islands originated over a decade earlier, in 1944, while he was escorting John Dos Passos around Manoa Valley.
Five years later, during a longshoreman's strike, which caused an economic crisis in Hawaii, Michener decided to write a novel that explored the "social relations in this melting pot of the Pacific."
Like Tales of the South Pacific (1947),.....
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