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by Claus-M Naske
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781935347026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
  • Publisher Imprint: Epicenter Press (WA)
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 384
  • Original Price: USD 17.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 513 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA), American Government / State, and United States / 20th Century

From the Back Cover
Secretary of State William Seward, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Czarist Russia in 1867, predicted on his first visit to the new possession that Alaska one day would become "a state or many states."
Seward's prediction came true in 1959 when Alaska became the 49th state.
Little wonder it took ninety years. At first, Alaska was recognized as a military district and later as a territory with limited self-government. The long quest for statehood was frustratingly slow for statehood advocates given the powerful influence of outside mining, shipping, and commercial fishing interests that exploited Alaska; the differences of opinion both at home and in Washington, D.C. as to whether a northern state could support itself; and the swirl of complex political intrigue that touches on other issues such as civil rights, the balance of power in Congress, and the timing of Hawaiian statehood.
In a book that reads at times like a political thriller, historian Claus-M. Naske tells the story of how, after decades of effort, the unrelenting pro-statehood forces won support from President Dwight D. Eisenhower - a breadthrough for their cause - and forged a coalition in Congress that approved the Alaska Statehood Act in 1958.

Naske, Claus-M: - Dr. Claus-M. Naske is a professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Naske has written numerous books about Alaska history.

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