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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Yale Univ Pr
Publication date
June 23, 2015
Pages
302
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780300198034
ISBN-10
0300198035
Dimensions
1.50 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.42 lbs.
Original list price
$35.00
Other format details
university press
Subjects
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Summaries and Reviews
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This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. governmentâassisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the recent Nazi war effort, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASAâs space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, and  by the rocketeersâ families, co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laneyâs book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the Space Race, and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their countryâs own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.
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1 edition from Yale Univ Pr (June 23, 2015)
9780300198034 | details & prices | 302 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.42 lbs | List price $35.00
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