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The American race to the moon is the subject of Douglas Brinkley's history, which takes in John F. Kennedy's pledge on May 25, 1961 to land a man there by the end of the decade. Brinkley covers the political, cultural and scientific forces behind NASA's creation and the Apollo, Gemini and Mercury programs, amid Cold War rivalry with the Soviets. He draws on new primary material and interviews with surviving participants. Figures include rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, astronaut John Glenn and Lyndon Johnson. It appeared ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of the first landing and became a New York Times best seller.
Morgan Housel called it the best book he has read on the 1960s space race, covering the engineers and scientists behind the moon landing as well as the anxiety that the Soviets would get there first and the panic among politicians behind the scenes.
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American Moonshot. The best book I’ve read on the 1960s space race, telling the story of not just the scientists and engineers who made landing on the moon possible, but the anxiety of what would happen if the Soviets did it first and the political panic behind the scenes.
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