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To: Razorbak who wrote (3990)	1/2/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Arktic	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5504

<OFF TOPIC> Yes... I've read much of the book. I know some of the players described in the book and have met the author. Not a bad piece of historical work although trying to get the truth out of players in the oil patch is not always an exercise in accuracy. How does the saying go... "I'll tell you the truth 20 different ways, but I'll never lie to you!" Memory has a way of playing a lot of tricks on recollections of exactly what happened when and who was involved. Again, overall... it's not a bad read and captures Alaskan oil history fairly accurately. The best oil history novel, of course, is The Prize by Daniel Yergin. He won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Prize". Reading that book helped re-define the history of the last one and one-half centuries for me. For example, before reading "The Prize" I had no idea that kamikaze pilots were primarily the result of no fuel rather than blind patriotism. The Japanese were boiling sap from a particular root to extract useable airplane fuel and were using cattle to pull aircraft onto the runway before takeoff to conserve fuel. Fuel was more precious than an aircraft so just enough fuel for a one-way flight was put in the tank before takeoff. Just one of many fascinating tidbits that Yergin discloses in The Prize. Paul L. Craig