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Title: Alaska: A History of the 49th State by Claus-M. Naske, Herman E. Slotnick ISBN: 0-8061-2573-X Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.25 (4 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Poor history
Comment: If this is the book you read to learn about Alaska then you didn't learn much. I notice in both editions that there is no mention whatever of the Aleut Evacuation...the what, you say? Yes, the forced evacuation of the Aleut people (no I am not Alaska Native) by our government in the name of security for which George I had not one word of apology when he expressed regret to the Japanese-Americans for their internment. By all means, see the film "Aleut Evacuation", Procuders Michael & Mary Jo Thill, Gaff Rigged Productions, Girdwood, Alaska. Co-produced by Dimitri Philemonof, Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Assoc, Inc. 1992. You may have to get it from the Anchorage Museum of History and Art but this history that has been deliberately supressed by our government must be known or your study of American History is incomplete.

Rating: 3
Summary: Time for a new edition
Comment: I've lived in Alaska 21 years and found this a frustrating book. It was chocked full of information, but uneven. Although a second edition, it was rife with pathetic typos and mispelled names. The authors deal in authoritative (perhaps excruciating) detail with political haggling for landmark rulings such as the Native land claims and authorization of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Yet they omit any reference to arts, wildlife management or the way people's living conditions have changed. As examples of this patchy approach, they tell us exactly how many barrels of oil various wells produced in their early years, but never tell us how many Alaskans died in the 1964 earthquake. Also, the second edition is now sadly dated. This is a useful book, but it is about the Alaska of the politicians and fails to convey a sense of The Great Land and its pioneers.

Rating: 1
Summary: Poorly written.
Comment: This book could be so much better if the authors had decided to write about the truth. They paint a false picture of Alaska in the first chapters. I live in Alaska and can not imagine why or how they could devote such a small portion of the book to Native Alaskans and spend so much time discussing the wonderful things Russians did in Alaska. One statement made was that the Russians tried to stop acts of slavery in which Native people were engaging. The fact is that the Russians enslaved and killed many Native people! There are much better books out there than this one.

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