American Moonshot

Told the parallel histories of modern rocketry/NASA and JFK to explain how we landed on the moon so quickly. Appreciated the discussion on von Braun's past, but got a smidge lost on some of the dates mentioned post WWII (probably would have been more clear if I wasn't listening to it).
Also, the narrator kept mispronouncing Gilruth.

I expected this book to be solely about Apollo 11 with little about how it came to be. I was pleasantly surprised by the detailed timeline of the space program as well as the politics behind the space race. Above all, it gives credit where credit is due to JFK, the scientists, engineers, and astronauts who made the moon landing possible.