Matthew D Tribbe

No Requiem for the Space Age

The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This fluidly written first book uses Americans' reactions to the Apollo moon landings to examine cultural and social trends in the 1960s and 70s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199313525
• ISBN-10: 0199313520
• Artikelnr.: 40029908

Autorenporträt

Matthew D. Tribbe is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue
* Introduction
* Part I: On Talking about Apollo
* Ch 1: "The Message of the Spirit of Apollo": Commonplace Reactions
* Ch 2: The Nihilism of the WASPs: Norman Mailer in NASA-Land
* Part II: On Mastering the University
* Ch 3: Apollo and the "Human Condition"
* Ch 4: The Thunder of Apollo: A Benevolent Endeavor in a Century of
Brutality
* Part III: On Rationalism and Neo-Romanticism
* Ch 5: Turning a Miracle into a Bummer: Squareland, Potland, and the
Psychedelic Moon
* Ch 6: "God is Alive, Magic is Afoot": Moon Voyaging in the
Neo-Romantic 1970s
* Conclusion: In the Wake of Apollo
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index