This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
By: Jon Mooallem
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropoli…
Want to Read $ 7.99"As the night wore on and information kept raining in sideways, everyone seemed to move around the building so quickly, "with this brilliant, tense look in their eyes." Genie said--"everybody doing a job."-Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
"As the night wore on and information kept raining in sideways, everyone seemed to move around the building so quickly, "with this brilliant, tense look in their eyes." Genie said--"everybody doing a job."-Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
"As the night wore on and information kept raining in sideways, everyone seemed to move around the building so quickly, "with this brilliant, tense look in their eyes." Genie said--"everybody doing a job."-Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
"Genie understood that everyone would be trapped together inside this crippled city for the foreseeable future--in the snow, in the dark, with no electricity, in below-freezing temperatures. Under those circumstances, she felt 'mass hysteria would have meant total destruction.' (pg. 79)"-Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
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31. This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
By: Jon Mooallem
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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"As the night wore on and information kept raining in sideways, everyone seemed to move around the building so quickly, "with this brilliant, tense look in their eyes." Genie said--"everybody doing a …"-Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
"Genie understood that everyone would be trapped together inside this crippled city for the foreseeable future--in the snow, in the dark, with no electricity, in below-freezing temperatures. Under tho…"-Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
