Robert David Johnson

Alaska, Hawai’i, and the United States as a Pacific Nation

In October 2008, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama departed from the campaign trail and flew to Hawai’i to visit his gravely ill grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. (She passed away a few days before Election Day.) The trip provided a sad reminder of Obama’s unusual upbringing, as an African-American in what long had been the nation’s only majority-minority state. Like many Hawaiians, Obama’s family had looked across the Pacific culturally, socially, and economically. Obama himself had spent several years of his childhood in Indonesia, where his mother worked as a consultant for the Agency for International Development and the Ford Foundation. “You can’t really understand Barack until you understand Hawai’i,” Michelle Obama later said.

Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition.

The progressive impulse the anti-imperialist impulse the dilemmas of progressivism the dilemmas of anti-imperialism the Alaskan agenda the Washington agenda the dilemmas of dissent the limits of dissent the frustrations of dissent.

The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations.

Introduction 1. Patterns of Dissent 2. The Emergence of the Peace Progressives 3. Alternative to Wilsonianisin 4. Alternative to Imperialism 5. Alternative to Corporatism 6. Anti-Imperialism and the Peace Movement 7. The Collapse of Wilsonianism 8. The Decline of Anti-Imperialism Epilogue Appendix: Congressional Votes on Foreign Relations, 1914-1932 Notes Select Bibliography Index