Spaceflight and the myth of presidential leadership
Book 2084/Completed: 11/16/2004
LC Control Number: | 96051213 | | | | | Published/Created: | Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. | Related Names: | Launius, Roger D. | | McCurdy, Howard E. | Description: | 262 p. ; 24 cm. | ISBN: | 0252023366 | | 0252066324 (pbk.) | Contents: | The reluctant racer, Dwight D. Eisenhower and United States space policy / David Callahan and Fred I. Greenstein -- Kennedy and the decision to go to the moon / Michael Beschloss -- Johnson, Project Apollo, and the politics of space program planning / Robert Dallek -- The presidency, Congress, and the deceleration of the U.S. space program in the 1970s / Joan Hoff -- Politics not science, the U.S. space program in the Reagan and Bush years / Lyn Ragsdale -- Presidential leadership and international aspects of the space program / Robert Ferrell -- National leadership and presidential power / John M. Logsdon. | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Subjects: | Astronautics and state--United States. | | Presidents--United States. | | Executive power--United States. | | Astronautics--United States--Public opinion. | LC Classification: | TL789.8.U5 S64 1997 | Dewey Class No.: | 387.8/0973 21 |
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