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- Book Title
- Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon
- ISBN
- 9780275962173
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science
- Publication Name
- Wernher Von Braun : the Man Who Sold the Moon
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Subject
- General, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Science & Technology
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Perhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skill--and as much deception--as Wernher von Braun. America's leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space travel, he had a closet full of secrets that would have shocked his colleagues and millions of admirers if they had been told during his lifetime. Wernher von Braun:The Man Who Sold the Moon is the first critical biography of the young German aristocrat who created Hitler's most advanced terror weapon, the V-2 rocket, and who came to the U.S. under the Army's Project Paperclip to develop missiles as a central weapon of the Cold War. The book reveals that factions of the U.S. Army, in their zeal to have von Braun's team of scientists working for American interests, covered up what they knew about his complicity in Nazi causes and abetted him in the perpetuation of the myth he carefully created about his past. Declassified Army documents and war crime transcripts, as well as the discovery of Europe of Dora concentration camp survivors' accounts, and von Braun's published writings and personal papers, have enabled biographer Dennis Piszkiewicz to document von Braun's career more fully than any previous historian. The man who tirelessly promoted space travel, worked with NASA to collaborate with Walt Disney creating television programs and the Tomorrowland section of Disneyland, and put the first astronauts on the moon, was actually a member of the Nazi party, held a rank in the SS equivalent to that of Major, and was an accomplice in the use of slave labor from the Dora concentration camp to produce his V-2 rocket. When the Third Reich collapsed, von Braun unashamedly switched his allegiance to the victor, and adroitly distanced himself from his Nazi partners. By going on to promote NASA and "sell" the American people on his dreams of space exploration, he became the man who sold the moon--a man who began his brilliant career by selling his soul to the Nazis.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0275962172
ISBN-13
9780275962173
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Wernher Von Braun : the Man Who Sold the Moon
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
General, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Science & Technology
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
98-014481
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Tl751
Reviews
"The Man Who Sold the Moon is lucidly written, well presented, has a comprehensive reference list and bibliography, and is definitely worth reading." Isis, "Excellent pictures, end notes, lengthy bibliography, and index....a fine new piece about the space scientist's contribution."- Society for German American Studies, "[T]his biography makes a convincing case that [von Braun] was also a war criminal, his past sanitized for expediency. The book may provoke moral outrage and a reassessment of the history of America's space program, launched with the help of 118 German rocket scientists brought here from Hitler's Third Reich."- Publishers Weekly, "Excellent pictures, end notes, lengthy bibliography, and index....a fine new piece about the space scientist's contribution." Society for German American Studies, "[T]his biography makes a convincing case that [von Braun] was also a war criminal, his past sanitized for expediency. The book may provoke moral outrage and a reassessment of the history of America's space program, launched with the help of 118 German rocket scientists brought here from Hitler's Third Reich." Publishers Weekly, "Piskiewicz does a very good job in exploring the American, Russian, and German political, personal, and social factors that hindered or promoted the development of rockets and eventual travel into space. Highly recommended. General readers; undergraduates; graduates." Choice, "Piskiewicz does a very good job in exploring the American, Russian, and German political, personal, and social factors that hindered or promoted the development of rockets and eventual travel into space. Highly recommended. General readers; undergraduates; graduates."- Choice, "The Man Who Sold the Moon is lucidly written, well presented, has a comprehensive reference list and bibliography, and is definitely worth reading."- Isis
Table of Content
Prelude: The Rocket The Immigrant The Authorized Biography The Coverup The Re-born Rocketeer Redstone Selling Space: The Collier's Articles Disneyland The First Race for Space The Soviet Chief Designer and Sputnik Explorer I Celebrity The Challenge of the Moon The Cuban Missile Crisis The Moonship Blunders and Disasters Men on the Moon Shuttle, Space Station, and the Decline of NASA Exile in America: von Braun's Last Years Epilogue: The Man Who Sold the Moon Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
College Audience
Illustrated
Yes
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