Alaska's rugged past -- Map : Alaska -- Alaska's struggle for statehood / Robert B. Atwood -- What statehood means to Alaska / Thomas B. Stewart -- Background on the forty-ninth state -- Hawaii's exotic past -- Map : Hawaii -- Hawaii's struggle for statehood / Lawrence H. Fuchs -- What statehood means to Hawaii / Robert M. Kamins -- Background on the fiftieth state / James A. Michener -- Life in Alaska / Harry Kursh -- A look at Alaska's natives / Wendell H. Oswalt -- Problems facing Alaska's natives / Theodore B. Hetzel -- Race relations frontiers in Hawaii / Andrew W. Lind -- Race and opportunity in Hawaii / Andrew W. Lind -- How Alaska is governed / John S. Hellenthal -- Alaska's achievements under statehood / Ernest Gruening -- How Hawaii is governed / Paul C. Bartholomew and Robert M. Kamins -- Hawaii's centralized government / W. Brooke Graves -- Gains from simplified rule in Hawaii / Gene Smith -- Alaska's economy : a summation / Ivan Bloch -- Alaska's economic problems -- Hawaii's economy : prospects and problems / Richard Austin Smith -- Arctic outpost in the Cold War / Hanson W. Baldwin -- Military neglect of Alaska charged / Ernest Gruening and RIchard L. Neuberger -- Alaska : first line of defense -- Hawaii's defense-geared economy