M&D context: new book

[Dave Monroe]

See also ...

McDougall, Walter A.  ... the Heavens and the Earth:
   A Political History of the Space Age.  Baltimore:
   Johns Hopkins UP, 1985.

"The definitive, surprising and highly readable
history of the U.S. space program. Forget visionary
rhetoric about humans' need to explore the next
frontier: McDougall demonstrates how NASA's moon
missions grew directly from Hitler's V-2 rocket
project at Pennemunde and were all about the classic
military necessity of controlling the high ground--in
this case the really high ground ... [One of] the five
best books I have read about the U.S. space program."

--Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down 

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/2651.html

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Reminds me of the hustlers in Pynchon's vision of
> Colonial and Early America...
> 
> [...] McDougall [....] unabashedly writes of
> Americans and assumes throughout that there is
> something called an American character. Only the
> character he describes may not be what many
> Americans would want to admit about themselves....
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/books/review/28WOODLT.html

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