State Fair Parade/ Joe McGinnis celebrates reissue of "Going to Extremes"

Submitted by fireside@goodbo... on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 12:53pm
08/28/2010 11:00 am
08/28/2010 1:00 pm

Stop in before and after the State Fair parade to meet Joe McGinnis, the celebrated author of "Going to Extremes," which is being reissued by Epicenter Press.

Going to Extremes (Paperback)

By Joe McGinniss
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9781935347033
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Epicenter Press, 8/2010
Other Editions of this Title

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.
Location: 
Street:
Fireside Books
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720 S Alaska St
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Palmer
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Province:
Alaska
Postal Code:
99645
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United States