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Eisenhowers Sputnik Moment\nby Yanek Mieczkowski\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Yanek Mieczkowski\nTitle: Eisenhowers Sputnik Moment\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2013\nISBN-13: 9780801451508\nISBN-10: 0801451507\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2019s presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world\u2019s first satellite. What Ike called \""a small ball\"" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged that he responded sluggishly to the challenge of space...\n\nIn a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower\u2019s presidency suddenly changed when the Sovie.