# John Glenn

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- Book: [John Glenn](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-chaikin/john-glenn) ([John Glenn.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-chaikin/john-glenn.md))
- Authors: [Andrew Chaikin](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-chaikin)
- Publisher: smithsonian_books
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-8834-486-1
- Published: 2014-04-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In February 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Since then John Herschel Glenn Jr. has stood in the popular imagination as a quintessentially American hero. In John Glenn: America's...