Being...Neil Armstrong

Legend has it that 10,000 years from now only one name will endure—the name of Neil Armstrong. Yet in the forty years since his first moonwalk, Armstrong has become increasingly reclusive. Andrew Smith, author of the bestselling Moondust, sets out on a cross-country journey to uncover the real Neil Armstrong. He seeks the voices who knew him, from his closest childhood friend to fellow astronauts and Houston technicians, and even the barber who sold his hair, offering a wry and sideways meditation on the reluctant hero behind the greatest event of the 20th century.