Newsweek, November 19th, 2007
The first orbit of the moon reminded us of life's fragility. In a new book, the author of 'The Greatest Generation' looks at how a year ended, and a new age began.
There was at the end of 1968 an event that remains an inspirational symbol for the challenges ahead. For the Sixties were also the glory years of the American space program, and of astronauts such as Captain Jim Lovell. Lovell, who will be eighty in 2008, retains the boyish enthusiasm of an Eagle Scout, an award he earned growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the Depression, the son of a single mother. His father had died, a...
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