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Strange Angel

The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

By George Pendle

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| Paperback | 9780156031790

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ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION screamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking sContinue

ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION screamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of black magic.

George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility. Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program. But Parsons's wild imagination also led him into the occult- for if he could make rocketry a reality, why not magic?

With a cast of characters including Howard Hughes,
L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein, Strange Angel explores the unruly consequences of genius.


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  • Whizz-bangs were him

    Strange Angel by George Pendle Weidenfeld & Nicholson £18.99, pp320 John Whiteside Parsons's life was short, but so boisterous that it easily fills 300-odd pages. This elegantly written book gradually reveals that his accidental death at the age of 3 ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 368 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0156031795
  • ISBN-13: 9780156031790
  • Publisher: Harvest Books
  • Pub date: Feb 06, 2006
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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