- Astronautics and state, Astronautics, History, United States
The book chronicles the politics of the Space Race, comparing the different approaches of the US and the USSR. ...the Heavens and the Earth was a finalist for the 1985 American Book Award and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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Grave, cool, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Walter A. McDougall
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 555
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Johns Hopkins University Press, ACLS History E-Book Project
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781597401654
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