Money, Mavericks, and Mayhem in Alaska
Crude Awakening is the rollicking story of politics in Alaska, where corruption is currency, oil is lifeblood, and corporations like BP and players like Sarah Palin and the late Ted Stevens run the show. These characters and their rise to power transformed the nation at largefrom Stevens’s epic fall from grace to the machinations of Bill Allen, the Tony Soprano of Alaska, who controlled candidates and companies...
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