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... The heavens and the earth [electronic resource] : a political history of the space age / by McDougall, Walter A.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDougall, Walter A., 1946-
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronautics and state--United States.
- Astronautics and state.
- Astronautics and state--Soviet Union.
- Astronautics--United States--History.
- Astronautics.
- Astronautics--Soviet Union--History.
- Astronautics and state--History--United States.
- Astronautics and state--History--Soviet Union.
- Astronautics--United States.
- Astronautics--Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 555 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- APPENDIX
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [466]-536) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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