Northern Exposure: Growing up in Dakota: A young man's story of surviving a generation of changes - Paperback

by Lu Hintz (Author)

Northern Exposure is about growing up in rural Canada and the Dakotas during World War II and the '50s. It's written from the viewpoint of a boy who is interested in all angles of life and death. Publisher and writer Gordon Burgett describes it as follows, "This is a super book, full of humor and truths and a slice of a time that seems almost medieval if it hadn't actually happened to most of our grandparents and their parents. Lu has brought it so alive you can almost feel and smell it "

Author Biography

Lu Hintz was born in Brandon, Manatoba, Canada the youngest of six children with a preacher father and school teacher mother. His early life was during the Great Depression of the 1930s, then World War II, and then the wildly changing '50s and '60s. He was alway interested in how things worked and won favor with his mother by fixing anything that broke in the household. He started college in Electrical Engineering, then switched to the ministry. When not sure how to continue he entered the Army during the Korean war. This assured him college expenses with the G. I. Bill when he got out. While in the Army he decided the medical profession looked the most promising. When leaving the army in 1956 he finally settled back to Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. As an electrical design engineer he saw the invention of the transistor evolve from the six transistor radio to millions of transistors on a microprocessor chip at his last place of imployment at Intel Corp. With his knowledge of German he was hired to work at Siemens in Germany to help them advance in the semiconductor industry. He and his wife extensively traveled throughout Europe and around the world. Being involved in the peace movement in the 1970s has brought about a keen interest in how people and societies evolve.