Crude Awakening: Money, Mavericks, and Mayhem in Alaska

by Tony Hopfinger and Amanda Coyne

Crude Awakening is the rollicking story of politics in America's last frontier and oil province -- Alaska, the nation's most wild and mysterious state, where politics and oil blurred on the day wildcatters struck it big in 1968. Living in a northern Never Land, where oil companies and the federal government kept the state living high and wild, a handful of players ran the show. Among them were the late Sen. Ted Stevens and oilman Bill Allen, the Tony...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568584474
• ISBN13: 9781568584478
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher