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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McDougall, Walter A., 1946- Heavens and the earth. New York : Basic Books, c1985 (OCoLC)567818244 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter A McDougall |
| ISBN: | 046502887X 9780465028870 0465028888 9780465028887 |
| OCLC Number: | 11468354 |
| Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, History, 1986. |
| Description: | xviii, 555 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 |
| Responsibility: | Walter A. McDougall. |
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