American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Fascinating & well-written & documented account of the radical vision of US President John F. Kennedy to put a man on the moon by the "end of the decade" (the 1960s). Great details on the origins of the US space program--reaching back to WWII and the development of the dreaded V2 rockets the Nazi scientists created to bomb England; also, lots of details on the so-called "space race" as it developed post-WWII with the Soviet Union. Listened to the audiobook on my iPhone; borrowed from the library.


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