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New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the United States took control of Earth's dest...

2020 Audie Winner - History/BiographyAs the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon.?We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will ...

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Just months after being elected president of the United States, John F. Kennedy announced that our nation would put a man on the moon by the decade’s end. In this engrossing epic of contemporary history, Douglas Brinkley returns to the 1960s to recreate one of the most exciting and ambitious achievements in human history.Drawing on new primary source material and recent scholarship, Brinkley draws a portrait of the brilliant men and women who ...