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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://macalester.worldcat.org/oclc/1103640625 Title: American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race Author: Douglas Brinkley Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] ©2019 ISBN/ISSN: 9780062655066 006265506X OCLC:1103640625

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American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race

Author:	Douglas Brinkley
Publisher:	New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] ©2019
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

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Genre/Form:	History
Named Person:	John F Kennedy
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Douglas Brinkley Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780062655066 006265506X
OCLC Number:	1103640625
Description:	xxv, 548 pages, 16 pages non numérotées de planches : illustrations (principalement en couleur) ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Preface: Kennedy's new ocean -- Rockets. Dr. Robert Goddard meets Buck Rogers ; Kennedy, von Braun, and the crucible of World War II ; Surviving a savage war ; Who's afraid of the V-2? -- Generation Sputnik. Spooked into the space race ; Sputnik revolution ; Missile gaps and the creation of NASA ; Mercury Seven to the rescue ; Kennedy for President -- Moonbound. Skyward with James Webb ; Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard ; ""Going to the moon": Washington, DC, May 25, 1961 ; Searching for moonlight in Tulsa and Vienna ; Moon momentum with television and Gus Grissom ; Godspeed, John Glenn ; Scott Carpenter, Telstar, and presidential space touring -- Projects Gemini and Apollo. "We choose to go to the moon": Rice University, September 12, 1962 ; Gemini Nine and Wally Schirra ; State of space exploration ; "The space effort must go on" ; Cape Kennedy -- Epilogue: The triumph of Apollo 11.
Responsibility:	Douglas Brinkley.
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The Space Race In The Cold War

by jmgallen (WorldCat user published 2019-07-14) Excellent

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“America’s Moonshot” is a contemporary look back at the Race to the Moon of the 1960s with the focus on the role of President John...
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“America’s Moonshot” is a contemporary look back at the Race to the Moon of the 1960s with the focus on the role of President John F. Kennedy in its initiation and promotion. More presidential history than scientific, it illustrates the central role that the space Program played in the Cold War.

The characters run the gamut of space lore from Jules Verne through Robert Goddard, Alan Shepherd, Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Jim Web, Chris Kraft, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and others too numerous to mention. The scene is set with Kennedy having been elected to get America moving again, a Soviet satellite in space, the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the President looking for something we can beat the Russians at. Told that that could be a race to the moon, Kennedy made the bold challenge that would invigorate the 60s.

The action begins with the Mercury program that moved NASA into space and laid the ground work for the Gemini and Apollo programs to follow. The tragedy of the Apollo I fire is analyzed not only on its own account but for the threat it presented to the timely completion of the challenge. The bold decision to send Apollo VIII to the moon, rather than have into earth orbit as originally planned, showed that the end of the decade deadline could be met.

Even a story as big as the Moonshot has personal elements. John Glenn and John Kennedy would become friends and the President was partially responsible in encouraging Glenn to get into politics. Kennedy’s distrust of Wernher von Braun because of his Nazi involvement and questions about his culpability in war crimes continually surface throughout this tome. Some astronauts, such as Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra irritated Flight Director Chris Kraft and former President Eisenhower repeatedly criticized the program.

Author Douglas Brinkley has crafted an enlightening look back on the stories that were front page news and television bulletins a half-century ago. He provides some explanation why the relatively short Kennedy Administration remains a benchmark against which others are measured. The references to von Braun’s record encourage reflection on our own time’s treatment of those with pasts. This is a well written history that shines light on our past and encourages us to reassess our present and future.

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