The Biggest Damned Hat
Tales from Alaska’s Territorial Lawyers and Judges
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
220 pages
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35 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2017
Review Quotes
Alaska Dispatch
“[A] breezy, light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining account of how the legal profession evolved in Alaska during the territorial and early statehood periods, and of how Alaska evolved in part as a result of its lawyers.”
Fairbanks News-Miner
“Readers can expect to come for the characters but stay for this story, which is truly unique. If any Alaska history book before this has touched on the state’s legal culture, it was only in passing or mired in such deep jargon that the human interest got lost. This, again, is where the skill of the writer and the extent of her research, particularly in the pursuit of personal interviews, shines through.”
Pacific Northwest Quarterly
“In the best Alaskan tradition, these tales are colorful and amusing and provide intimate detail about many of the people who helped from the 49th state’s modern legal practice. . . . The Biggest Damned Hat is very entertaining.”
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