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  • “Meticulously researched and inspiring... A reminder that our political gestures and small wins accumulate and create ripple effects in ways we cannot often measure...”
    A New York Times Editors' Choice
    Background image, Chinatown After Dark, by Willard E. Worden, Courtesy of the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
    —Anisse Gross, San Francisco Chronicle
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    “Lost Kingdom is a riveting saga about Big Sugar flexing its imperialist muscle in Hawaii. It's impossible not to be impressed with the breadth of Siler's fine scholarship. A real gem of a book."
    —Douglas Brinkley
    Background image, Enoch Wood Perry´s Manoa Valley, courtesy of the Bishop Museum (cropped for use on this website)
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    “Call it Greek tragedy or Shakespearean drama, Biblical strife, Freudian acting out or even soap opera. You wouldn’t be exaggerating, and you wouldn’t be wrong….”
    —Eric Asimov, The New York Times

About the Author

Julia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her new book, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Against Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in May of 2019. She is also the author of Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure and the The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty. READ FULL BIO

Latest Blog Entry…

Remembering a Hawaiian Queen

A few weeks ago, I was asked by a producer at Wondery if I’d be interested in being interviewed for the podcast American History Tellers about Hawaii’s last queen. I hesitated at first because my book on Hawaii had been published more than a decade ago. Agreeing to the interview would mean that I’d … READ FULL POST

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