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Norman Mailer, a dissenting view

November 10, 2007 - 11:48 am - by Roger Kimball
Nick
2007-11-10 12:59:58

Agreed, with the exception of “Of a Fire on the Moon” that combines his engineering background with a New York sneer to give a jolly good insight into the men (WASPs all) who conceived and then carried out this amazing feat. His description of what the “light on” really meant — that Armstrong had just seconds of fuel left in which to land or crash — and not as Cronkite droned that the “lights were landing lights” makes it worth the read, even today.