Going to Extremes - Hardcover

McGinniss, Joe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394511727 ISBN 13: 9780394511726

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1980

Synopsis

An account of life in today's Alaska takes in whites, Eskimos, and Native Indians, cities, towns, and wilderness, industry and trapping, and the idiosyncracies, dangers, vastness, and wonders of America's last frontier

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Review:

"Wonderfully ironic and perceptive!" --"San Francisco Chronicle"

"Rewarding, impressive...first-person reporting at its finest." --"Christian Science Monitor"

"Terrifying and splendid" - Boston Globe

"Powerful...poignant...hilarious" - Newsweek

"Joe McGinnis did not set out to judge or explain, but only to find out what Alaska is. He has succeeded." --New York Times

"Funny, thought provoking, and relevant" - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

From the Back Cover:

When construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline created an oil boom in the late 1970s, journalist Joe McGinniss headed north to find out what if anything was left of the "last frontier." He discovered, as one reader put it, "mind-bending contradictions" - greed, waste, addictions, and racism, all of which contrasted with the vast, untamed natural beauty and the honest, open, and independent spirit of the people.

McGinniss looked at the underbelly of Alaska's boom culture. He tells a sometimes shocking, often moving story of turmoil through the perspectives of a lively assortment of bush pilots, boomers, park rangers, bartendesr, teachers, journalists, waitresses, politicians, Alaskan Natives, and an advancing legion of outsiders looking to get rich quick. "Going to Extremes" is an entertaining yet historically important book that stands as a journalistic time capsule from a time three decades ago when overwhelming changes were sweeping over Alaska.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0394511727
• ISBN 13: 9780394511726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1