Douglas Brinkley (2019)

Historian, Author

air date: Apr 25, 2019

Presidential historian and author Douglas Brinkley discusses his book “American Moonshot,” a chronicle of the turbulent 1960s and JFK’s audacious plan to put a man on the moon.

Douglas Brinkley is a highly regarded and best-selling author, CNN Presidential Historian, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

• Audience Q&A
• JFK and the Space Race
• We do big things during war
• Donald Trump
• NASA and the tech revolution
• Neil Armstrong and 9/11

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