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Episode 53 --- John Glenn, JFK and the Cold War's New Frontier
Episode 53 --- John Glenn, JFK and the Cold War's New Frontier
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60 minutes
Released:
Jun 4, 2021
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Historian and former Clinton presidential speechwriter Jeff Shesol chats about his new book, “Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy and the New Battleground of the Cold War” just out from W.W. Norton. Shesol makes the case that the Cold War and the Space Race were inextricably intertwined in ways that are rarely appreciated in most conventional histories of the subjects. Shesol gives us a great inside look into this mostly-forgotten early era.
Released:
Jun 4, 2021
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Podcast episode
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