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Signed copy
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Price: |
13.00 |
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Title: |
Broken Trust - Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust |
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Author: |
Samuel P. King & Randall W. Roth |
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ISBN: |
0-8248-3044-X |
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Description: |
Softcover (6 1/4 x 9 1/4) , University of Hawaii Press, 2006, 2nd printing. 324 pages. B/W photos, illustrations. |
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Condition: |
Clean and tight with mild corner upturn, mild edge wear, small smudge top page edge. |
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Summary: |
"Bishop Estate is the nation's wealthiest charity, with an endowment estimated at $10 billion--greater than the combined endowments of Harvard and Yale universities. With vast land holdings in a small island state, Bishop Estate wasn't bashful about flexing its muscles, and its influence reached deep into Hawaii's government, judiciary, and business communities in incestuous relationships that increasingly reeked of corruption... Before the Bishop Estate trustees fell, corrupt officials felt confident they could act with impunity; after, they had to seriously fear being caught and punished. The era of the Bishop Estate scandal will be remembers as one of the most exciting and pivotal times in Hawaii's short history as a state... Appropriately, the story begins with a respectful remembrance of the Hawaiian princess who left her people the blessed gift that inspired such courage in her name." |
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