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This is a collection of sixty outrageous, funny, scathing, touching, or compassionate, and often politically incorrect observations of Mike Doogan, Alaska's most outspoken journalist. Doogan calls 'em as he sees 'em. His bullshit detector is set on high. He uses words as one would use a flame thrower, often scorching the hides of the powerful and pretentious. He sniffs out injustice and bureaucratic blundering like a bird dog. And his unvarnished view of life in Alaska is not always pretty. Yet, Doogan is a journeyman storyteller who finds extraordinary deeds and sometimes goodness in the lives of ordinary people. Doogan's subjects are so diverse that his editor, Michael Carey, puzzled at length over how to organize the collection. Finally, Carey threw up his hands, and ordered the columns alphabetically by first word (excluding "a" and "the"), thus preserving the unpredictability and element of surprise in DOOGAN.Doogan, Mike is the author of 'Doogan The Best of the Newspaper Columnist Alaskans Love to Hate' with ISBN 9780972494458 and ISBN 0972494456.
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