Description
Howard Weaver advanced from foot soldier to field marshal within the Alaska Newspaper War, but he never left the fight. He spent time with small-the city hoodlums and massive-time politicians, crossed swords with Big Oil and Big Labor, and edited the Anchorage Day-to-day News to essentially the most not likely David and Goliath upset in American journalism history and helped his newspaper win two Pulitzer Prizes along the best way. Weaver cared passionately and fought fiercely in each and every political struggle of his era, from oil development to Local sovereignty, from park land designations to environmental activism. The Anchorage Day-to-day News pulled no punches in telling Alaska’s story, and Weaver has pulled none on this account of a fierce, take-no-prisoners battle to the death between his newspaper and the Anchorage Times.