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For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer--the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction--wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America's reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine: gripping firsthand dispatches from inside NASA's clandestine operations in Houston and Cape Kennedy; technical insights into the magnitude of their awe-inspiring feat; and prescient meditations that place the event in human context as only Mailer could.Praise for Of a Fire on the Moon"The gift of a genius . . . a twentieth-century American epic--a Moby Dick of space."--New York"Mailer's account of Apollo 11 stands as a stunning image...

Author

Norman Mailer

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

Subjects

Engineering, Stem

Rating

3.77 / 5 (264 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14