American Moonshot (Audio book) - John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

About the author

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, presidential historian for the New-York Historical Society, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” He is the recipient of such distinguished environmental leadership prizes as the Frances K. Hutchison Medal (Garden Club of America), the Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks (National Parks Conservation Association), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Lifetime Heritage Award. His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume, annotated Nixon Tapes won the Arthur S. Link–Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Brinkley, Douglas/ Graybill Brinkley
• Assisted by: Stephen Graybill (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 14.04.2020
• EAN: 9780062985514
• ISBN: 978-0-06-298551-4
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: Expeditions & Discoveries, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Presidents & Heads of State, first edition;kennedy;1220;jfk;2019;2020;2021