| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2

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Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska. By Stephen Haycox. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2002. xii + 180 pp. Illustrations, map, biographical notes, index. Paper $21.95.

When Chuck Konigsburg moved to Alaska in 1968 to teach at Alaska Methodist University, he was excited by the prospect of a new, undeveloped state unburdened by the mistakes of the past. He urged his neighbors to seize the opportunity to create a model, planned society and helped to found the Alaska Center for the Environment. For his pains, Konigsburg was fired from his job, blacklisted from other teaching positions, and treated as a pariah. He discovered the distressing central theme of Stephen Haycox's overview of Alaska's political and economic history: Most Alaska residents have no taste for innovation or idealism and harbor a strictly utilitarian view of the natural environment. Their interest was and is in making Alaska a northern version of Washington or Oregon (or perhaps Texas or Oklahoma), where insiders can make as much money as possible with the fewest possible restraints. . . .

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