Description: The story of the thirteen-year effort to add the 49th and 50th states to the Union.
Brief description: John S. Whitehead retired from the history department of University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and resides in Athens, Georgia.
Review Quotes: "John S. Whitehead has written a monumental history that traces the separate but interconnected paths that Alaska and Hawai'i took to achieve statehood in 1958 and 1959."