One of my purposes here is to write about some of the books I read, at least the ones related to the main topic. This is a decent account of the beginnings of the Space Race. It is amazing how much cold war history is related to it. Khrushchev and the Secret Speech, the 1956/7 cutbacks in Soviet conventional Forces, etc, etc.
Did General LeMay actually send bombers to violate Soviet (Arctic?) Air Space in 1957? ("Operation Power House"?).
I enjoyed it, not sure how illuminating it is. One of the biggest lessons is how large a role internal (Bureaucratic) politics played on both sides in the decision making. And how important, the domestic US issue of School Integration, was perceived to be at the time. It certainly seems to loom as large in terms of the attention of he Eisenhower administation, and the long term effects on US domestic politics are still ripling though our system today.
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