A former Marine fighter pilot, Jay Hammond heads north to Alaska after World War II. He becomes a trapper, bush pilot, fisherman, guide, wolf hunter, poet, environmentalist, and finally a reluctant politician who endears himself to Alaska's people by telling them the unvarnished and sometimes unwelcome truth about the state of affairs in their oil-boom state. They punish him by electing him governor! In this autobiography, Hammond reveals the

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jay Hammond was governor of Alaska during construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and was architect of Alaska's Permanent Fund. He divides his time between Anchorage and his homestead on Lake Clark in Southwest Alaska.