Palo Alto, California: Published for the Hawaiian Historical Society by Pacific Books, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the governor of the Provisional Government and Republic and the first territorial governor of Hawaii, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii - and a man who was responsible for negotiating Hawaii's annexation by the US. While detailed and well-researched, this is an uncritical look at Dole, which presents him as a "great American." 30 black and white photographs and illustrations.ndex. xiv, 394 pp.