Big Miracle: Inspired by the Incredible True Story That United the World

ISBN-13: 9780312625191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str.

Tom Rose

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Now a major motion picture starring Drew Barrymore, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Tim Blake Nelson, John Krasinski, and Vinessa Shaw--an account of the dramatic rescue of three gray whales trapped under the ice in Alaska in 1988.
Set in Cold War-era 1988, Big Miracle tells the real story behind the remarkable, bizarre, and oftentimes uproarious event that mesmerized the world for weeks. On October 7, an Inuit hunter near Barrow, Alaska, found three California Gray whales imprisoned in the Arctic ice. In the past, as was nature's way, trapped whales always died. Not this time. Tom Rose, who was covering the event for a Japanese TV station, compellingly describes how oil company executives, environmental activists, Inupiat people, small business people, and the U.S. military boldly worked together to rescue the whales. He also tells the stories of some of the more than 150 international journalists who brought the story to the world's attention. The rescue was followed by millions of people around the world as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev joined the forces of their two nations to help free the whales.

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Tom Rose was a TV and news executive and reporter at the time of the rescue efforts in 1988, which he covered for the Japanese television network. He is also a successful radio host on the Bauer and Rose Show on Sirius and a contributor to The Weekly Standard, The Jerusalem Post, Politico, The Washington Times, The Chicago Sun-Times and many others. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.