Re: Reconsideration

jsavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Savard) wrote:

I think it is a reasonable reading of history, rather than an
exaggerated coloring of it, to say that he was ignored.

Read David A. Clary's _Rocket Man_. Goddard got more US press coverage
in the late 1920s and 1930s (nearly all favorable) than any other
scientist except Einstein, and may have received more funding (mostly
from the Guggenheim Foundation) than any other single American
scientist of the period.

The "unsung genius" version (and endless re-telling of the dumb NY
Times editorial) is a re-writing of history that took hold in the late
1950s, when we were embarrassed about space and badly wanted a native
hero.

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