Title: good for Mailer fans & literary types, misses mark for techs
Review: I read this book 29 years after the event. I had high expectations because I had never read Mailer before and I've always been interested in science history and space and have read a number of books about and by astronauts. It was like Mailer wasn't there, he missed most of the important stuff because he felt beneath himself acting as a "journalist" instead of a "writer". Significant events & issues like running out of fuel at the last minute, or the computer geek who saved the mission at the last minute, the story behind the famous quote "one small step for [a] man..." were completely missed because he spent all the time telling us why he didn't want to write the story.
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