TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitehead,John S.
TI  - Completing the union: Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood 
SN  - 0826336361 (alk. paper)
AV  - F909 .W53 2004
U1  - 979.8/03 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - Alaska
KW  - Hawaii
KW  - Statehood (American politics)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1867-1959
KW  - 1900-1959
N1  - "The book had its origins in 1981 as an oral history project for the Alaska Statehood Commission"--Acknowledgements; Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-426) and index; Far-off and distant territories : Alaska and Hawai'i on the eve of World War II -- Hawai'i : a Gibraltar worth defending? -- Alaska : a land without people -- And the war came: World War II in the territories, 1941-1945 -- World War II and the transformation of Hawai'i -- World War II and the creation of modern Alaska -- And the war came again : statehood and the cold war in Alaska and Hawai'i, 1946-1956 -- The cold war stymies Hawai'i as the forty-ninth state, 1946-1950 -- The continuing transformation of Hawai'i, 1950-1956 -- The cold war activates Alaska, 1946-1954 -- The Alaska legends : the constitutional convention and the Alaska-Tennessee Plan, 1955-1956 -- The needle and the thread : Alaska and Hawai'i complete the union, 1957-1959 -- We're in : Alaska takes the lead as the forty-ninth state, 1957-1959 -- The last territorial delegate and the admission of Hawai'i, 1957-1959 -- Epilogue : the legacy of the fifty-star flag -- Journey's end: a personal note
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013685.html
ER  -