Capturing Kahanamoku

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"An engaging romp." — New York Times Book Review "A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don’t: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... In 1920, the museum’s director, Henry Fairfield Osborn, traveled to Hawaii on an anthropological research trip.

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