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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsSecret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionageby Philip Taubman
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In a brief period of explosive, top-secret innovation during the 1950s, a small group of scientists, engineers, businessmen, and government officials rewrote the book on airplane design and led the nation into outer space. Led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, they invented the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes and the first reconnaissance satellites that revolutionized spying, proved that the missile gap was a myth, and protected the United States from Soviet surprise nuclear attack. They also made possible the space-based mapping, communications, and targeting systems used in the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Veteran New York Times reporter and editor Philip Taubman interviewed dozens of participants and mined thousands of previously classified documents to tell this hidden, far-reaching story. He reconstructs the crucial meetings, conversations, and decisions that inspired and guided the development of the spy plane and satellite projects during one of the most perilous periods in our history, a time when, as President Eisenhower said, the world seemed to be "racing toward catastrophe." This is the story of these secret heroes, told in full for the first time. Synopsis:During the early days of the Cold War, a handful of Americans secretly built machines that revolutionized spying and protected the United States from a surprise nuclear attack. This is "The Right Stuff" of the satellite-based spy system of the fifties and sixties. About the AuthorPhilip Taubman, the New York Times Washington Bureau Chief and former deputy editorial page editor, has reported on national security and intelligence issues for more than twenty years. The winner of two George Polk awards, he lives in Washington, D.C. Table of ContentsContents Preface Cast of Characters
1946-1954 Chapter One
"Racing Toward Catastrophe"
Chapter Two
The Origins of Strategic Intelligence
Chapter Three
Stargazing in Santa Monica
Chapter Four
Seeing Air
Chapter Five
"I Think I Have the Plane You Are After"
1954-1956 Chapter Six
The Role of a Lifetime
Chapter Seven
"This Thing Is Made Out of Toilet Paper"
Chapter Eight
Photographing the President's Cattle
Chapter Nine
Big Game Hunting
1956-1976 Chapter Ten
Earthbound
Chapter Eleven
Creating Corona
Chapter Twelve
"Go Off and Build That Thing"
Chapter Thirteen
Heartbreak
Chapter Fourteen
"Capsule Recovered Undamaged"
Chapter Fifteen
A Stradivarius, Not a Cracker Box
Epilogue
Losing the Inventive Spark
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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