The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Walter A. McDougall. Johns Hopkins University Press, $31 (584pp) ISBN 978-0-8018-5748-5

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian examines the competing U.S. and Soviet space programs. (Oct.)

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