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