";s:4:"text";s:2618:" 1,388 customer ratings. It traces the history of the plains of northeast Colorado from prehistory until the early 1970s. James A. Michener, who survived a Dickensian childhood to win the Pulitzer Prize with his very first book, published when he was about 40, and then … Hawaii by James Michener.
His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific , which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific , … It even led me to finding the God of the Jews, which led to my becoming Christian some years later. As an archaeology grad student, I decided to reread one of my favorite novels, The Source, to judge its accuracy.
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4.6 out of 5 stars. That said, I am glad I persevered and glad that Hawaii is now a more meaningful place because of Michener's ability to share his understanding and love of it -- even with the extra words, pages and sometimes chapters. One of the great novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener, set one of his best-known novels right here in Colorado. [He] is an educator, not just in history but in ethics, and like any good educator, he’s not afraid to confront a complex world.”—Edward Rutherfurd, Chicago Tribune “Michener tells interesting stories about the Constitution, even if they are fiction. Had Hawaii been my first experience, however, I might have been less open to another such daunting reading commitment. Hawaii . .