Write Hard, Die Free: Dispatches from the Battlefields & Barrooms of the Great Alaska Newspaper War

Howard Weaver

ISBN 10: 1935347195 / ISBN 13: 9781935347194

Published by Epicenter Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Write Hard, Die Free: Dispatches from the Battlefields & Barrooms of the Great Alaska Newspaper War
• Publisher: Epicenter Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935347195
• ISBN 13: 9781935347194
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Howard Weaver advanced from foot soldier to field marshal in the Alaska Newspaper War, but he never left the fight. He spent time with small-town hoodlums and big-time politicians, crossed swords with Big Oil and Big Labor, and edited the Anchorage Daily News to the most unlikely David and Goliath upset in American journalism history and helped his newspaper win two Pulitzer Prizes along the way. 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.

About the Author

Howard Weaver lives with his wife Barbara Hodgin in the Sierra foothills, where they tend about 100 fruit and olive trees and learn, the hard way, about farming.