Ready to Escape to Hawaii and talk books? Please join John Toupin '85 in conversation with author Julia Flynn Siler, '82, American Studies concentrator, for a discussion of her New York Times bestseller, LOST KINGDOM: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure.

"Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polynesian people, was encountered, annexed, and absorbed." —Kevin Starr, historian, University of Southern California.

John describes his connections to Hawaii "mainly through family and food": His mother, Elizabeth Ahn Toupin, was born in Hawaii in 1925, witnessed Pearl Harbor, and wrote the bestselling "The Hawaii Cookbook" in 1964. John also went to Capitol Hill and interned for Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI), a childhood classmate of his mother and godfather.

Escape to the islands with us in this engaging conversation!

P.S. Please join us even if you don't have time to read the book!

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