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The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age
Chronicles the political history of the space race, from its nineteenth-century beginnings with the rocketry pioneers to the Cold War competition, in which space became another area embraced by the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
Pulitzer Prize, History, 1986. Pulitzer Prize for History, 1986.
Descripción:
xviii, 555 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contenido:
PART I The Genesis of Sputnik --
Chapter 1 The Human Seed and Social Soil: Rocketry and Revolution --
CHAPTER 2 Political Rains and First Fruit:The Cold War and Sputnik -Conclusion --
PART II Modern Arms and Free Men: America Before Sputnik --
CHAPTER 3 Bashful Behemoth: Technology, the State, and the Birth of Deterrence --
CHAPTER 4 While Waiting for Technocracy: The ICBM and the First American Space Program --
CHAPTER 5 The Satellite Decision --
Conclusion. PART III Vanguard and Rearguard: Eisenhower and the Setting of American Space Policy --
CHAPTER 6 "A New Era of History" and a Media Riot --
CHAPTER 7 The Birth of NASA --
CHAPTER 8 A Space Strategy for the United States --
CHAPTER 9 Sparrow in the Falcon's Nest --
CHAPTER 10 The Shape of Things to Come --
Conclusion. PART IV Parabolic Ballad: Khrushchev and the Setting of Soviet Space Policy --
CHAPTER 11 Party Line --
CHAPTER 12 The Missile Bluff --
CHAPTER 13 Hammers or Sickles in Space? --
CHAPTER 14 Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis --
Conclusion --
PART V Kennedy, Johnson, and the Technocratic Temptation --
CHAPTER 15 Destination Moon --
CHAPTER 16 Hooded Falcons: Space Technology and assured Destruction --
CHAPTER 17 Benign Hypocrisy: American Space Diplomacy --
CHAPTER 18 Big Operator: James Webb's Space Age America --
CHAPTER 19 Second Thoughts --
Conclusion. PART VI The Heavens and the Earth: The First Twenty-five Years --
CHAPTER 20 Voyages to Tsiolkovskia --
CHAPTER 21 The Quest for a G.O.D. --
CHAPTER 22 A Fire in the Sun.
Responsabilidad:
Walter A. McDougall.
Resumen:
Chronicles the political history of the space race, from its nineteenth-century beginnings with the rocketry pioneers to the Cold War competition, in which space became another area embraced by the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
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