Crude Dreams: A Personal History of Oil and Politics in Alaska

By Jack Roderick

Book Overview

In February 1968, the rumors became reality: An ARCO drilling rig has struck oil -- lots of oil -- on Alaska's remote North Slope. Jack Roderick's story of oil and politics in Alaska reads like a novel as he tells of the risky, expensive, and mostly frustrating search for oil across the 49th state. Oil companies watch one another jealously. Small independents and the new state struggle to share in the action dominated by huge multi-national oil companies. Gov. Bill Egan, the shy grocer from Valdez, stands up to the industry, seeking the largest possible share of oil revenues for Alaskans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945397607
• ISBN13: 9780945397601
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Epicenter Press, Incorporated
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

History at its very best!

"Crude Dreams" is a great read. Jack Roderick is a masterful storyteller. He provides us with an intriguing history of the oil industry in Alaska along with fascinating portraits of the unforgetable personalities who lived it. Any attempt to understand the oil business in Alaska is incomplete without this book. This is history at its very best.