August 21st 1960 saw James Michener's all time classic "Hawaii" atop the NY Times Review of Books Best Selling Hardcover Fiction list. It would spend the majority of 1960 trading the top spot with Allen Drury's monster smash "Advise and Consent".
During 1959 and 1960 these 2 books amassed 78 weeks at #1.
"Hawaii" would be James Michener's most successful novel of his long and storied career spending 48 total weeks at #1.
2 film adaptations of "Hawaii" were made, the first in 1966 which took its main story from the 3rd chapter of the book which covered the settlement of American missionaries on the islands.
In a 1970 sequel "The Hawaiians" with Charlton Heston covered the latter part of the novel.
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