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

Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment : : The Race for Space and World Prestige / / Yanek Mieczkowski.

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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 charge...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Mieczkowski, Yanek,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 14 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Sputnik
  • 1. What Was the Sputnik "Panic"?
  • 2. "The Most Fateful Decision of His Presidency"
  • 3. Eisenhower's Reaction to Sputnik
  • 4. Eisenhower's Principles
  • Part Two: Setbacks
  • 5. Cheerleader-in-Chief
  • 6. "Gloom, Gloom, Gloom"
  • 7. Space Highs, Economic Lows
  • 8. Eisenhower's Rival
  • 9. "Radical Moves"
  • 10. Order from Chaos
  • 11. Defeat and a SCORE
  • 12. Priorities and Prestige
  • Part Three: Space
  • 13. Satellites, Saturn, Spacemen
  • 14. Voyages, Mirages, Images
  • 15. Space, Prestige, and the 1960 Race
  • 16. Eisenhower versus Kennedy
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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