American Moonshot
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. 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
548 pages
English edition · First published 2019 by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers · ISBN 9780062655066
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