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We will be selling books at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs as Christian Davenport presents his book The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos.
Christian Davenport is a staff writer at the Washington Post covering the space and defense industries for the financial desk.
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program.
Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen-are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space travel, and send humans even further than NASA has gone.
The Space Barons is also a story of rivalry-hard-charging startups warring with established contractors, and the personal clashes of the leaders of this new space movement, particularly Musk and Bezos, as they aim for the moon and Mars and beyond.