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Eisenhower's Sputnik moment : the race for space and world prestige
- Title
- Eisenhower's Sputnik moment : the race for space and world prestige / Yanek Mieczkowski.
- Author
- Mieczkowski, Yanek.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 358 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index.
- Contents
- What was the Sputnik "panic"? -- The most fateful decision of his presidency? -- Eisenhower's reaction to Sputnik -- Space and Eisenhower's principles -- Cheerleader-in-chief -- Gloom, gloom, gloom -- High in space, low on earth -- Eisenhower's rival -- Radical moves -- Order from chaos -- Defeat and a score -- Priorities versus prestige -- Satellites, Saturn, spacemen -- Voyages, images, mirages -- Space and prestige in the 1960 race -- Eisenhower versus Kennedy.
- Call Number
- ILH 13-3828
- ISBN
- 9780801451508 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801451507 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012029157
- 40022059980
- OCLC
- 801219594
- Author
- Mieczkowski, Yanek.
- Title
- Eisenhower's Sputnik moment : the race for space and world prestige / Yanek Mieczkowski.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022059980
- Research Call Number
- ILH 13-3828