Re: Indispensable space history books?
- From: Monte Davis <monte.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:47:28 GMT
If you started with
This New Ocean, William E. Burrows, for broad-gauge history...
....the Heavens and the Earth, Walter A. McDougall, for the political
and international angles of the first 25 years (most of which are
still operative in recognizable morphs)...
Space and the American Imagination, Howard E. McCurdy,
for the SFnal and broader cultural expectations...
And then worked out selectively from their bibliographies and notes,
you'd have covered the indispensable ground.
None of the three provides much technology geekery, astronaut
hero-worship, or Here's How Great Space Could Be Without Engineering,
Political, and Economic Constraints -- but that's what the space
newsgroups are for.
Monte Davis
http://montedavis.livejournal.com
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