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| Foreword | |
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| Prologue: A Rite of Succession | |
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| Becoming an American | |
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| Ellis Island and a Tragedy in Texas | |
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| A Benefactor and the House on the Twelfth Green | |
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| The Virtues of Golf | |
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| White Silk Scarves and Open Cockpits | |
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| Entering the Brotherhood | |
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| A Fiasco and Reform | |
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| Staying the Course | |
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| A Fork in the Road | |
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| "Let's Dive-Bomb the Bastards" | |
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| The Test of War | |
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| Inheriting a Different World | |
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| Atomic Diplomacy | |
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| Spies Inside the Barbed Wire | |
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| "The Balance has Been Destroyed" | |
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| The State that was Stalin | |
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| A Confrontation and a Misreading | |
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| Containing the Menace | |
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| Neither Rain, Nor Snow, Nor Sleet, Nor Fog | |
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| Stalin Gets His Bomb | |
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| The Consequences of Delusion | |
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| Good Intentions Gone Awry | |
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| The Perils of an Apprenticeship | |
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| Hap Arnold's Legacy | |
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| Getting Organized | |
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| Bomber Leader | |
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| Into the Lion's Den | |
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| Moscow Opts for Rockets | |
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| A Nuclear Reactor in the Sky | |
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| Low-Level Tactics and the Flying Boom | |
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| The Last Tangle and an Ambush | |
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| Starting a Race | |
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| Seeking Scientific Validation | |
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| When Hungary Was Mars | |
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| A Fascination with Explosions | |
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| Finding an Ally | |
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| Marshaling the Expertise | |
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| The Tea Pot Committee | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| "Okay, Bennie, It's a Deal" | |
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| Winning a President | |
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| A Schoolhouse and a Radical New Approach | |
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| The Guru of Rockets | |
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| A Problem with Tommy Power | |
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| How Greed Corrupts | |
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| An Assault from an Unexpected Quarter | |
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| A Sense of Adventure | |
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| No Time for Family | |
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| Getting to Ike | |
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| A Difficult Dialogue at Geneva | |
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| Dazzling the Monarch | |
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| No More Nitpicking | |
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| A Rader in Turkey | |
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| Building the Unstoppable | |
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| A Competitor | |
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| The Team of Mettler and Thiel | |
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| John Bruce Medaris and Wernher von Braun | |
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| The Cape of the Canebrake vs. "Mosse" Mathison | |
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| A Few Grains of Sand | |
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| Medaris Goes for the ICBM | |
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| The Reluctant Rescuer | |
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| Thor vs. Jupiter | |
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| Sputnik | |
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| Thor Readies for England | |
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| Jamie Wallace's Thor Show | |
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| The Biggest Airlift Since Berlin | |
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| "Roy...I Want you to Get Me Camp Cooke" | |
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| A Tie | |
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| Black Saturday | |
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| The Trials of Atlas and a Christmas Surprise | |
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| Whose Missile Gap? | |
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| A Victory Despite the Bugs | |
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| Minuteman: Ed Hall's Triumph | |
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| "You Couldn't Keep him in that Job" | |
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| A Spy in Orbit and a Game of Nuclear Dice | |
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| A Would-Be Spy in the Sky Goes Awry | |
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| Mathison Snatches the Prize | |
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| Discoverer Goes "Black" into Corona | |
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| A Harebrained Scheme | |
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| Palm Tree Disguises | |
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| Keeping the Military on the Leash | |
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| "Use 'Em or Lose 'Em" | |
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| LeMay and Tommy Power as the Wild Cards | |
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| Avoiding G�tterd�mmerung | |
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| Buying Time for the Empire to Implode | |
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| Epilogue The Schriever Luck | |
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| Johnny von Neumann Finds Faith but not Peace | |
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| "The Slowest Old Trev has Ever Gone in a Cadillac" | |
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| Losing it all and Forgiving a Brother | |
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| "Only in America" | |
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| A Reunion with Hap | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Interviews | |
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| Source Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |