Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age

Now in paperback, the life and legacy of the much-overlooked yet highly influential Robert Goddard—the brilliant, eccentric, and controversial pioneer of the space age.

More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. Supported by Charles Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, he de…