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<p>Joe Conason, author of The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton and Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth <br> Crude Awakening is a marvelously lyrical yet rigorous narrative of Alaska's awakening to the corruption spawned by its enormous natural wealth. It's a story told through the lives of three remarkable characters: oil kingpin Bill Allen, political boss Ted Stevens, and the state's self-proclaimed savior, Sarah Palin. <br>Philip Gourevitch, author of The Ballad Of Abu Ghraib and A Cold Case <br> The story of Alaska politics, with its fantastic cast of dramatic and self-dramatizing characters, is one of the great American stories of our times. And here it is, from the reporting team that has been breaking it and bringing it to us in must-read dispatches for years. <p>Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer who served as a presidential speechwriter in the Nixon and Ford adm

<p>Joe Conason, author of The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton and Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth <br> Crude Awakening is a marvelously lyrical yet rigorous narrative of Alaska's awakening to the corruption spawned by its enormous natural wealth. It's a story told through the lives of three remarkable characters: oil kingpin Bill Allen, political boss Ted Stevens, and the state's self-proclaimed savior, Sarah Palin. <br>Philip Gourevitch, author of The Ballad Of Abu Ghraib and A Cold Case <br> The story of Alaska politics, with its fantastic cast of dramatic and self-dramatizing characters, is one of the great American stories of our times. And here it is, from the reporting team that has been breaking it and bringing it to us in must-read dispatches for years. <p>Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer who served as a presidential speechwriter in the Nixon and Ford administrations<br> A genuinely frightening look at some genuinely frightening characters in a land where money is a constant and truth and dignity are variables. The authors have turned over the ice and snow to see some extremely unlovely specimens of humanity who get less and less lovely as the spotlight shines on them. This is a finely crafted, riveting look at some dangerously crafty and even worrisome individuals in the oil patch under the ice patch. A fantastic piece of work. <p>Steve W. Haycox is a distinguished emeritus professor at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and the author of several books, including Alaska: An American Colony <br> With clarity and verve Tony Hopfinger and Amanda Coyne have reconstructed the unflattering story of Alaska's politics in the age of once Governor Sarah Palin and oil henchman Bill Allen to show how life in the shadow of 'Big Oil' corrupted the venal and the mighty, ultimately destroying even the career of Senator Ted Stevens. Their reliabl

<p>Joe Conason, author of The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton and Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth <br> Crude Awakening is a marvelously lyrical yet rigorous narrative of Alaska's awakening to the corruption spawned by its enormous natural wealth. It's a story told through the lives of three remarkable characters: oil kingpin Bill Allen, political boss Ted Stevens, and the state's self-proclaimed savior, Sarah Palin. <br>Philip Gourevitch, author of The Ballad Of Abu Ghraib and A Cold Case <br> The story of Alaska politics, with its fantastic cast of dramatic and self-dramatizing characters, is one of the great American stories of our times. And here it is, from the reporting team that has been breaking it and bringing it to us in must-read dispatches for years. <p>Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer who served as a presidential speechwriter in the Nixon and Ford

"Joe Conason, author of The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton and Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth ""Crude Awakening is a marvelously lyrical yet rigorous narrative of Alaska's awakening to the corruption spawned by its enormous natural wealth. It's a story told through the lives of three remarkable characters: oil kingpin Bill Allen, political boss Ted Stevens, and the state's self-proclaimed savior, Sarah Palin."" Seattle Times ""There's been lots written about Palin since [she ran for governor in 2006], but what makes this book worth reading is that it is written by Alaskans, about Alaskans and with an inside view of what a different place it is."" Ben Stein, Washington Times ""Crude Awakening is a breathtakingly fine book on the history of oil in the complex state of Alaska... [A] magisterial work of history. It gives me an idea of just how foolhardy people in Alaska can be - and also how kind and welcoming and supportive. It also tells me that there is a new generation of historians out there who will be able to keep up fine, meticulously detailed history-writing, presented in a compellingly readable way... If you want to understand the power of the King Kong of minerals, oil, once it is awakened, captured and carried back to the mainland, do not miss this book, or the movie that is sure to follow. This is simply fantastic work."" Library Journal ""Politics is said to be a volatile, sticky, primordial, black muck. So is oil. Coyne and Hopfinger give us the rundown, via three particular Alaskans, on the murky politics of oil in Alaska... Ably and temperably told by authors who know Alaska..., this is a valuable study to understanding the Last Frontier, the oil business, or Palin."""

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Amanda Coyne is co-founder of AlaskaDispatch, an online news site devoted to covering the state. Her writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and The Guardian. She lives in Anchorage. Tony Hopfinger has reported on Alaska politics and oil since coming to the state in 1999. He is the co-founder and executive editor of Alaska Dispatch. He lives in Anchorage.

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