Completing the Union : Alaska, Hawai'i, and the Battle for Statehood

by Whitehead, John S.

• ISBN13: 9780826336378
• ISBN10: 082633637X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

The story of the thirteen-year effort to add the 49th and 50th states to the Union.

Author Biography

John S. Whitehead retired from the history department of University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and resides in Athens, Georgia

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Howard R. Lamar
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Apathy and Ecstasy	1	(12)
Part I Far-off and Distant Territories: Alaska and Hawai'i on the Eve of World War II	13	(54)
Hawai'i: A Gibraltar Worth Defending?	15	(17)
Alaska: A Land without People	32	(35)
Illustrations	56	(11)
Part II And the War Came: World War II in the Territories, 1941-1945	67	(68)
World War II and the Transformation of Hawai'i	69	(29)
World War II and the Creation of Modern Alaska	98	(37)
Illustrations	130	(5)
Part III And the War Came Again: Statehood and the Cold War in Alaska and Hawai'i, 1946-1956	135	(136)
The Cold War Stymies Hawai'i as the Forty-ninth State, 1946-1950	137	(30)
The Continuing Transformation of Hawai'i, 1950-1956	167	(34)
The Cold War Activates Alaska, 1946-1954	201	(36)
The Alaska Legends: The Constitutional Convention and the Alaska-Tennessee Plan, 1955-1956	237	(34)
Illustrations	263	(8)
Part IV The Needle and the Thread: Alaska and Hawai'i Complete the Union, 1957-1959	271	(70)
We're In: Alaska Takes the Lead as the Forty-ninth State, 1957-1959	273	(28)
The Last Territorial Delegate and the Admission of Hawai'i, 1957-1959	301	(40)
Illustrations	330	(11)
Epilogue: The Legacy of the Fifty-Star Flag	341	(20)
Journey's End: A Personal Note	361	(5)
Notes	366	(50)
A Guide to Sources and Orthography	416	(11)
Index	427