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What happened with Robert A. Heinlein in 1959?
Robert A. Heinlein ended his juvenile novels with Starship Troopers (1959), a controversial work and his personal riposte to leftists calling for President Dwight D. Eisenhower to stop nuclear testing
Why was Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959) controversial?
Starship Troopers (1959) was Robert A. Heinlein's controversial work and his personal riposte to leftists calling for President Dwight D. Eisenhower to stop nuclear testing in 1958.

Question: was it successful?
Self-contained rewrite: Was Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959) successful?