Thanksgiving/Christmas fund drive is over. Big thanks to everyone who donated!
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My annual Thanksgiving/Christmas fund drive for Behind the Black is now over. Though it sagged in the middle, the final week was an amazing barn-burner. My readers responded in an astonishing manner, so that 2024 now looks like it will turn out to be the best year for me financially since I started this webpage in 2010.
Thank you to all! I am always at a loss to express my gratitude for this support. No one is required to pay anything to read my work. And yet so many of you are still willing to do so. Thank you again!
I will leave this thank you notice up for the next few days, so that everyone can see it.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Dear Mr. Zimmerman,
Thank you very much for the continuous information that you provide in your website and in the John Batchelor program. I enjoy immensely those conversation with Mr. Batchelor. Just like you, I’m very “attached” to the Apollo 8 mission and still get emotional whenever I hear the Christmas eve broadcast and have bought some items related to this mission. I hope that I get the chance to see American astronauts back on the Lunar surface. I just donated $250 and I’m looking forward to add your book to my collection of books signed by astronauts.
Best wishes,
P.S.
David J. Nunes: And thank YOU for your kind words about my work as well as your donation.
David J. Nunes–
You Sir, are a Great American!
-Your value-added video-link:
https://archive.org/details/apollo-8-december-1968-super-8mm-1440x-1080
May you have the best Thanksgiving holiday.
History also has its downside. I chose to give to my local homeless shelter instead.
–Gary
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James Street: And thank YOU for your incredible long term support for Behind the Black. It is appreciated far more than you realize.
Though I can afford but a modest contribution, I cherish this site and the knowledge I gain from both your work, Robert, and the commentary of my fellow readers! What a country!