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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons Hardcover - 2005
by George Pendle
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Brilliant Rocket Scientist Killed in Explosion screamed the front-page headline of the Los Angeles Times on June 18, 1952. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer whose work had helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plotline into a reality, was at first mourned as a tragically young victim of mishandled chemicals. But as reporters dug deeper a shocking story emerged-Parsons had been performing occult rites and summoning spirits as a follower of Aleister Crowley-and he was promptly written off as an embarrassment to science.
George Pendle tells Parsons's extraordinary life story for the first time. Fueled from childhood by dreams of space flight, Parsons was a crucial innovator during rocketry's birth. But his visionary imagination also led him into the occult community thriving in 1930s Los Angeles, and when fantasy's pull became stronger than reality, he lost both his work and his wife. Parsons was just emerging from his personal underworld when he died at age thirty-seven. In Strange Angel, Pendle recovers a fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences of genius.
George Pendle tells Parsons's extraordinary life story for the first time. Fueled from childhood by dreams of space flight, Parsons was a crucial innovator during rocketry's birth. But his visionary imagination also led him into the occult community thriving in 1930s Los Angeles, and when fantasy's pull became stronger than reality, he lost both his work and his wife. Parsons was just emerging from his personal underworld when he died at age thirty-seven. In Strange Angel, Pendle recovers a fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences of genius.
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In December 1913 Ruth and Marvel Parsons left the ice and snow of the East for what they hoped would be a new future.
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- Title Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- Author George Pendle
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date January 18, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780151009978 / 015100997X
- Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.44 x 1.22 in (23.62 x 16.36 x 3.10 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Aeronautical engineers - United States, Rocketry - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004010666
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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