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Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War

by Jeff Shesol

A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War―a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more d

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

Jun 01, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

416

ISBN

9781324003243