American Moonshot
John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Just months after being elected president of the United States, John F. Kennedy announced that our nation would put a man on the moon by the decade’s end. In this engrossing epic of contemporary history, Douglas Brinkley returns to the 1960s to re-create one of the most exciting and ambitious achievements in human history.Drawing on new primary source material and recent scholarship, Brinkley draws a portrait of the brilliant men and women who made this giant leap possible, the technology that enabled them to propel men beyond Earth’s orbit to the moon and return them safely, and the geopolitical tensions that ignited Kennedy’s audacious drea…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-285991-4
- EAN: 9780062859914
- Produktnummer: 25460178
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 944 S.
- Ausstattung: Grossdruck-Ausg.
Über den Autor
Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. In the world of public history, he serves on boards, at museums, at colleges, and for historical societies. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” The New-York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley as its official U.S. Presidential Historian. His recent book Cronkite won the Sperber Prize, while The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume, annotated Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link–Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He is a member of the Century Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children. www.douglasbrinkley.com
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