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LIFE The Great Space Race: How the U.S. Beat the Russians to the Moon Single Issue Magazine – 30 September 2016

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The Great Space Race between the U.S. and the USSR during the Cold War was a series of moving triumphs and tragedies, both technological and deeply human that riveted the nation even as it seemed the fate of the free world hung in the balance. Which nation’s rockets would reach the moon first? And consequently, would those same rockets blow us to smithereens.

Through it all, LIFE had exclusive access to the heroes behind what the magazine called “history’s greatest exploration.” Their reporters were VIPs at the Cape Canaveral, their photographers spent time in the astronauts’ flight simulators and in their homes, and two weeks after the moon landing, LIFE published what was at the time the definitive account of America’s extraterrestrial triumph. LIFE’s all-new special edition, The Great Space Race: How the U.S. Beat the Russians to the Moon recaptures those heady days, tracing the race’s early days and the politics surrounding it, the race to develop technology, and the elation of an entire nation as we watched the 1969 liftoff to the moon.

Filled with the trademark photography that you’ve come to expect from LIFE, The Great Space Race will take you back in time – a time that was looking toward the future.

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96 pages
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30 September 2016
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20.32 x 0.58 x 27.64 cm
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1683304446
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978-1683304449
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ LIFE (30 September 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Single Issue Magazine ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1683304446
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1683304449
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 0.58 x 27.64 cm

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JAMES KAPLAN has been writing about people and ideas in business and popular culture, as well as noted fiction (Best American Short Stories), for over three decades. His essays and reviews, as well as more than a hundred major profiles of figures ranging from Madonna to Helen Gurley Brown, Calvin Klein to John Updike, Miles Davis to Meryl Streep, and Arthur Miller to Larry David, have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. His first novel, Pearl's Progress, was published by Knopf in 1989. His nonfiction portrait of John F. Kennedy International Airport, The Airport (1994) -- called "a splendid book" by Gay Talese -- remains a classic of aviation literature and New York storytelling. His second novel, Two Guys From Verona -- published in 1998 by Atlantic Monthly Press, and chosen by The New York Times as one of its Notable Books of the Year -- is being developed as a movie by Jeremy Garelick, screenwriter of The Break-Up and The Hangover. In 2002 Kaplan co-authored the autobiography of John McEnroe, You Cannot Be Serious, which was an international bestseller (and number one on the New York Times list). His 2005 book Dean and Me: A Love Story, co-written with Jerry Lewis and published by Doubleday, was a New York Times bestseller as well. In November 2010, Doubleday published Frank: The Voice, the first volume of Kaplan's definitive biography of Frank Sinatra. The book was also a New York Times bestseller, and was chosen by Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani as one of her Top Ten Books of 2010. James Kaplan lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and three sons. You can visit his website at www.jameskaplan.net.

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Pierce

Excellent book. Well written easy read.

Reviewed in the United States on 3 January 2017

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Excellent book. Well written easy read. Well packaged and arrived early. Just a reminder of what I watched as a kid.

Jean Jean

Beautiful pictures!

Reviewed in the United States on 19 October 2016

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Love my Kindle edition- it is less expensive than the printed version and does not add to clutter in my house. Yea!

Ignacio Calleja Ahedo

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Reviewed in the United States on 26 December 2016

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Excellent review, clear and concise. Highly recommended

Yves

Livre de photos de très mauvaise qualité

Reviewed in France on 13 June 2017

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Petit livre illustré sur la conquête de l'espace avec Life. Mais quelle horreur, les belles photos de Life sont de très mauvaises qualités. Peut être une édition de format Kindle. A fuir.

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very interesting read

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