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ocn865508589 |
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OCoLC |
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20240726105447.0 |
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131217s1993 nyu ob 001 0 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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NT |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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pn |
| Transcribing agency |
NT |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780199938162 |
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| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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n-us--- |
| 050 04 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
E835 |
| Item number |
.S688 1993 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NTA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Divine, Robert A. |
| Relator term |
Author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Sputnik challenge /Robert A. Divine. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
(c)1993. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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computer |
| Media type code |
c |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
online resource |
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cr |
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rdacarrier |
| 347 ## - DIGITAL FILE CHARACTERISTICS |
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| File type |
data file |
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rda |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a 184-pound metal ball called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth, and America plummeted into a panic. Nuclear weapon Designer Edward Teller claimed that the United States had lost "a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor," and magazine articles appeared with such headlines as "Are We Americans Going Soft?" In the White House, President Eisenhower seemed to do nothing, leading Kennedy in 1960 to proclaim a "missile gap" in the Soviets' favor. Rarely has public perception been so dramatically at odds with reality. In The Sputnik Challenge, Robert Divine provides a fascinating look at Eisenhower's handling of the early space race - a story of public uproar, secret U-2 flights, bungled missile tests, the first spy satellite, political maneuvering, and scientific triumph. He recreates the national hysteria over the first two Sputnik launches, illustrating the anxious handwringing that the Democrats (led by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson) aggressively played for political gain. Divine takes us to private White House meetings, showing how Eisenhower worked closely with science adviser James Killian, allowing him to take the lead in creating a civilian agency - NASA - which provided intelligent and forceful leadership for American space programs. But the President also knew from priceless intelligence U-2 flights over the U.S.S.R. that he had little to fear from the touted missile gap, and he fought to limit the growth and multiplication of military missile programs. Eisenhower's assurance, however, rested on classified information, and he did little to instill his confidence in the public. Nor could he boast of his early support for the secret spy satellite program (which quickly replaced the U-2 plane after Gary Powers was shot down in 1960). So the public continued to worry, feeding the national movement for educational reform as well as congressional maneuvering over funding for numerous strategic projects. Eisenhower, Divine writes, possessed keen strategic vision and a sure sense of budgetary priorities, but ultimately he flunked a crucial test of leadership when he failed to reassure the frightened public that their fears were groundless. As a result, he also failed in his goal to limit military spending as well - which led to a real missile gap in reverse. Incisively written and deeply researched, The Sputnik Challenge provides a briskly-paced history of the origins of NASA, the space race, and the age of the ICBM. |
| 530 ## - COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: |
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| COPYRIGHT INFORMATION |
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="b">b</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Eisenhower, Dwight D. |
| Fuller form of name |
(Dwight David), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1890-1969. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Artificial satellites |
| General subdivision |
Social aspects |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 655 #1 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Electronic Books. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=672470&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=672470&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518</a> |
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Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) |
| DONATED BY: |
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| VENDOR |
EBSCO |
| Classification part |
E |
| PUBLICATION YEAR |
1993 |
| LOCATION |
ONLINE |
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NFIC |
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NT |
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1 |
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Cynthia Snell |
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1 |
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Cynthia Snell |