Book Review: Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
The U.S. Vs. Soviet Space Race is Popularized in Cadbury's New Book
By Eve Lichtgarn, published Aug 08, 2006
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Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
By Deborah Cadbury
HarperCollins Publishers, 2006
Hardcover, 370 pp., illus.
ISBN 0-06-084553-8
US $24.95
As the cliché goes, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Applied to the craft of literature, this means it is unnecessary to write books that have already been written. Why, then, would Deborah Cadbury toil over a biography of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev when so many dedicated biographers have done so before her? One potential explanation is that her research produced previously unknown material requiring new analysis. Adding another spoke to the wheel, perhaps. A close reading of Cadbury’s book "Space Race" eliminates that explanation. Another possible reason is that she is trying to deliver known information to a new set of readers. Same wheel, different audience. That must be it.
Book Review: Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space
Space Race by Deborah Cadbury
Credit: HarperCollins Publishers
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The two top rocket designers in the world were each arrested by their own repressive governments.
Resources
- "The Rocket and the Reich" by Micahel J. Neufeld, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Dennis Piszkiewicz, "Korolev" by James Harford, "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe, "Of a Fire on the Moon" by Norman Mailer, "If the Sun Dies" by Oriana Fallaci
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