American Moonshot Young Readers` Edition: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race, Brinkley Douglas
Автор: Brinkley Douglas, Nichter Luke Название: The Nixon Tapes: 1973 ISBN: 0544811844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780544811843 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2237.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The blueprint for Nixon`s downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published. These are the very last Nixon tapes, and no president has recorded since. This bookcombined with The Nixon Tapes: 19711972will stand as the go-to source on the Nixon tapes; a generation of Americans will learn about Richard Nixon and his presidency from these volumes.
Автор: Brinkley Douglas Название: American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race ISBN: 0062655078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062655073 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2089.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon.
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win."--President John F. Kennedy
On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the 1960s to recreate one of the most exciting and ambitious achievements in the history of humankind. American Moonshot brings together the extraordinary political, cultural, and scientific factors that fueled the birth and development of NASA and the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects, which shot the United States to victory in the space race against the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
Drawing on new primary source material and major interviews with many of the surviving figures who were key to America's success, Brinkley brings this fascinating history to life as never before. American Moonshot is a portrait of the brilliant men and women who made this giant leap possible, the technology that enabled us to propel men beyond earth's orbit to the moon and return them safely, and the geopolitical tensions that spurred Kennedy to commit himself fully to this audacious dream. Brinkley's ensemble cast of New Frontier characters include rocketeer Wernher von Braun, astronaut John Glenn and space booster Lyndon Johnson.
A vivid and enthralling chronicle of one of the most thrilling, hopeful, and turbulent eras in the nation's history, American Moonshot is an homage to scientific ingenuity, human curiosity, and the boundless American spirit.
--Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo da Vinci
Автор: Brinkley, Douglas Название: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Life of Rosa Parks ISBN: 1407248588 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781407248585 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 1061.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Douglas Brinkley Название: Gerald R. Ford ISBN: 0805069097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805069099 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 3219.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation forward. Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party, refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do. Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his underappreciated legacy to the nation.
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