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Title: The moon landing of 1914
Review: Apollo 11's moon landing 20 July 1969 was a brilliant human feat. It crowned JFK's eight year effort (twelve years if one starts from Sputnik).Fifty-five years earlier the onset of World War I in August 1914 muted an equally radiant exploit: the opening of the Panama Canal. It had taken 39 years (401 years if one starts from Vasco Núñez de Balboa's trek over the Isthmus in 1513), and involved extraordinary expense (more than the sum of all territorial purchases in US history). Nascent advances in medicine, science, and technology were instrumental, but the project still involved innumerable deaths, a racial divide, and political intrigue worthy of modern best-selling fiction.McCullough's reputation as the consummate historian/storyteller is nowhere better advanced than in this work.
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