Sparky: Warrior, Peacemaker, Poet, Patriot
Subtitle: A Portrait of Senator Spark M. Matsunaga
Publisher: Watermark Publishing
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780972093217
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Biography: historical; Matsunaga, Spark M.,; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; United States; Biography / Autobiography; Legislators; Hawaii; The Americas; Government - U.S. Government; Political; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); History; United States - 20th Century; Biography & Autobiography / Political; History / United States / 20th Century; 1916-; Asian American legislators; Biography; Japanese Americans
First sentence: On a dusty road running down to the sea on the remote Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, a group of grade-school boys, mostly Japanese-Americans, raced up and down one day in 1924, then turned to playing dodge ball with a clump of rags knotted together; the boys were too poor to buy a real ball.