Going To Extremes

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Description for GOING TO EXTREMES by Joe McGinnis: This is the fourth edition of a work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable cl assic 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. Show more