dr. crawley for that too kind introduction. i am delighted to be back here. was here ad when i year ago that i might not go home. i know when you do this kind of lecture, it is customary to warm the audience up with a few funny stories. if i had known 14 months ago i was coming back, i would not have told you all of my funny stories. [laughter] james haley: it is probably best that we move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. i am anglo. actually i am partly cherokee native, but i am in mainland writer, so the times i will have to speak in hawaiian, it is sick. we will talk about the hawaiian language. the first thing i need to do is make some disclaimer of utility, because captive paradise is intended to explain the essentials of how the united states, how we got our hands on the place. i have never gotten so reviews -- such memorable reviews, i'm used to getting reviews, but what i got from wall street all the way to honolulu magazine were extraordinary, really wonderful reviews, which did not prepare me for the anger i saw in the native independence b

dr. crawley for that too kind introduction. i am delighted to be back here. i threatened when i was here a year ago that i might not go home. [laughter] james: i know when you do this kind of lecture, it is customary to warm the audience up with a few funny stories. if i had known 14 months ago i was coming back, i would not have told you all of my funny stories. [laughter] best: so it is probably that we move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. now i am anglo. actually i am partly cherokee i amive, but