As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, Douglas Brinkley, award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author, offers a fresh look at America’s race to the moon and President John F. Kennedy’s bold challenge. On May 25, 1961, JFK declared his goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade: “We choose to go to the Moon…not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
In American Moonshot, Brinkley brings the 1960s vividly to life, weaving together the political, cultural, and scientific forces that propelled NASA, the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, and the extraordinary figures, from Wernher von Braun to John Glenn, who made this giant leap possible. Drawing on new sources and interviews, he captures the ingenuity, ambition, and determination that defined the era.
Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities at Rice University, frequent contributor as Presidential Historian to several networks to include CNN, MS Mow, NBC, CBS and PBS as well a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He has authored multiple bestsellers and received numerous awards for his work in American history and public scholarship.
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