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Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. Neufeld. Alfred A. Knopf Publishers (http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/home.pperl), 1745 Broadway, New York, New York 10019, 2007, 624 pages, $35.00 (hardcover).
More than 30 years after his death, German-born rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun remains a controversial and polarizing figure. In the span of a single year, he was both the subject of Dr. Space, an admiring new biography by Huntsville, Alabama, journalist Bob Ward, and dismissed as an "odious opportunist" in Masters of the Air, Donald L. Miller's popular history of the American strategic bombing offensive (p. 418). To his supporters, von Braun is a visionary who sought …