Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks - A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic Cavallaro UmbertoPaperback
Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks - A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic Cavallaro UmbertoPaperback The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR…
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Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks - A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic Cavallaro UmbertoPaperback
The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. This book will show how beneath these surface similarities, the two competing nations employed very different core tactics. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies.
Through this fascinating historical visual record, the author shows how the propaganda-heavy approach of the USSR eventually lost out to the more pragmatic approach of the United It provides a new perspective of the history of the space race by analyzing that history through philately - that is, from the images on postage stamps, post cards, and letters in circulation at that time.