Eisenhowers Sputnik-Moment

Author/Contributor(s):	Mieczkowski, Yanek
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	04/15/2013
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged that he responded sluggishly to the challenge of space...