[PDF.78kc] The Final Frontier: The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State (Haymarket)

The Final Frontier: The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State (Haymarket)

[PDF.dq38] The Final Frontier: The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State (Haymarket)

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 | #4661179 in Books |  Verso Books |  1988-04 | Format: Illustrated | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x5.25 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant effort in joining litcrit and history|By A Customer|Dale Carter's excellent "The Final Frontier" traces the history of the US space and aeronautics program from the end of the Second World War onwards, using Thomas Pynchon's magnificent novel "Gravity's Rainbow" as a jumping-off point.
One of the reasons that "Gravity's Rainbow" is such an extraordinary book i|From Publishers Weekly|According to British historian Carter, as much as the 1930s were shaped by the rise of imperialist powers, the postwar era has been characterized by the quest for the domination of space, and the rocket is the symbol and metaphor for postw

According to British historian Carter, as much as the 1930s were shaped by the rise of imperialist powers, the postwar era has been characterized by the quest for the domination of space, and the rocket is the symbol and metaphor for postwar American social history. Borrowing his terminology from Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, Carter says this shift from the Nazi "Oven State" to the American "Rocket State" was signaled by "the appearance of men for whom rocketry has ...

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