Write Hard, Die Free: Dispatches from the Battlefields & Barrooms of the Great Alaska Newspaper War
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.15 (892 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935347195 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Vivid and Important Book About Alaska History and Journalism" according to Critical reader. I was editor of the Anchorage Daily News in the years before Howard Weaver. I hired Kay Fanning to work there and directed and wrote the original Village People series. I can cheerfully second Weaver's comments about the old Anchorage Times and the newspaper wars. A vivid and important book about Alaska history and journalism generally. I'. "There really was a time when guys like this were reporters" according to zen. If you weren't around for the Great Anchorage Newspaper Wars, you may not think this book will be relevant. But Howard Weaver's gifted storytelling details more than the city's competition between two papers. In fact, the reader witnesses corruption at all levels, the stranglehold big business (oil) had (has) on the people of Alaska, and t. A newspaperman's newspaperman Rusty Coats "Write Hard, Die Free" was such an insightful, poignantly written book that I stole moments away from a romantic trip to Paris to read it. Howard Weaver's book is part memoir, part management how-to, part industry fable, all written clearly and vividly. While the passion of the newspaper war soars from each page, beneath those flinty peaks
The author tells an important story about the conflicting forces at play in Alaska much larger than his own." ----Melanie Sill, editor, Sacramento Bee, 2007-2011 "Write Hard, Die Free reads like an X-ray of someone with an oversized heart. This is about the battle between good and evil, yet the most stunning portrait is of Howard Weaver - his capacity to care, to fight for things worth fighting for." ----John Larson, PBS correspondent . And nowhere was it more fun than in Alaska, as H
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.. 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. Howard Weaver advanced from foot soldier to field marshal in the Alaska Newspaper War, but he never left the fight. 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
. 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