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Going to Extremes
Full title: | Going to Extremes |
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ISBN: | 9781935347033 |
ISBN 10: | 1935347039 |
Authors: | JOE MCGINNISS |
Publisher: | Epicenter Press |
Edition: | Fourth Edition with new prologue |
Num. pages: | 303 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2010 |
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Synopsis
This is the fourth edition of a work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable classic work that captures a portrait frozen in time of a raw state in turmoil during the oil boom. McGinnis went north to find out if there was anything left of the "last frontier." He found "mind-bending contradictions," as a previous publisher put it--greed, waste, addictions, and racism, among other things, that contrasted with an awesome untamed natural beauty and an honest, open, and independent spirit of the people.