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Principles of Modern Chemistry
[Buy it!] | Oxtoby, David W.; Gillis, H. Pat; Butler, Laurie J. | USD 40.56
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The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower's Response to the Soviet Satellite
[Buy it!] | Robert A. Divine | USD 19.95
(Wed May 22 22:33:46 2024) | Biblio | The Anthropologists Closet | Oxford University Press, Date: 1993. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Very good hardcover with turquoise paper and black buckram with metallic green lettering to spine. Dust jacket has toning to the inside edges and minor scuff marks. 8vo. (9.4 x 0.9 x 6.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes notes and an index. 272 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a 184-pound metal ball called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth, and America plummeted into a panic. Nuclear weapon Designer Edward Teller claimed that the United States had lost 'a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor, ' and magazine articles appeared with such headlines as 'Are We Americans Going Soft?' In the White House, President Eisenhower seemed to do nothing, leading Kennedy in 1960 to proclaim a 'missile gap' in the Soviets' favor. Rarely has public perception been so dramatically at odds with reality. In The Sputnik Challenge, Robert Divine provides a fascinating look at Eisenhower's handling of the early space race - a story of public uproar, secret U-2 flights, bungled missile tests, the first spy satellite, political maneuvering, and scientific triumph. He recreates the national hysteria over the first two Sputnik launches, illustrating the anxious handwringing that the Democrats (led by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson) aggressively played for political gain. Divine takes us to private White House meetings, showing how Eisenhower worked closely with science adviser James Killian, allowing him to take the lead in creating a civilian agency - NASA - which provided intelligent and forceful leadership for American space programs. But the President also knew from priceless intelligence U-2 flights over the U.S.S.R. that he had little to fear from the touted missile gap, and he fought to limit the growth and multiplication of military missile programs. Eisenhower's assurance, however, rested on classified information, and he did little to instill his confidence in the public. Nor could he boast of his earlysupport for the secret spy satellite program (which quickly replaced the U-2 plane after Gary Powers was shot down in 1960). So the public continued to worry, feeding the national movement for educational reform as well as congressional maneuvering over funding for numerous strategic. 1993. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195050088 9780195050080 [US] |
