INSPIRED BY ALASKA

The frontier politics of Alaska have always lured Weaver.
“Alaska politics always comes down to debate over resource development—mainly about oil,” Weaver writes. “The adversaries in the argument in those days were evenly matched, and the body politic was a hormonal adolescent, undergoing great changes and still coming to grips with what it wanted to be. The decade in which Bob Dylan sang ‘there was music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air,’ was a heady, optimistic time to come of age in Alaska.”

Howard Weaver
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Howard has been known to: sing loudly in public.
He’ll never get caught: giving up on what he believes in.
A favorite/line expression and where it’s from: “The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” –William Gibson, author of <em>Neuromancer</em> and other near-future novels.
Alaskans he most admires: Ernest Gruening, Jay Hammond, Kay Fanning
Favorite Alaska places: Kachemak Bay, his old cabin in Sutton, Loussac Library in Anchorage
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Weaver cared passionately and fought fiercely in every political struggle of his era, from oil development to Native sovereignty, from park land designations to environmental activism. The Anchorage Daily News pulled no punches in telling Alaska’s story, and Weaver has pulled none in this account of a fierce, take-no-prisoners battle to the death between his newspaper and the Anchorage Times.
Described by several reviewers as “the story of the fight for Alaska’s soul,” this book is rooted in Alaska and inspired by love of Alaska. Anchorage born Howard Weaver would lead his newspaper to two Pulitzer prizes and victory over the rival Anchorage Times, but his primary objective was bringing Alaskans the information they needed to decide the future of the state. This is the authoritative history of that struggle.
Sneaky Peek
Alaska politics always comes down to debate over resource development—mainly about oil. The adversaries in the argument in those days were evenly matched and the body politic was a hormonal adolescent, undergoing great changes and still coming to grips with what it wanted to be. The decade in which Bob Dylan sang “there was music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air,” was a heady, optimistic time to come of age in Alaska.
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