Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige

Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige

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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...