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(0)Jeff Shesol
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting history of the momentous Friendship 7 space flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn't catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War--a moment when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the US to every major milestone in space....
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of Franklin Roosevelt's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices-and to "pack" the new seats with liberals who shared his belief in a "living"...