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The Right Stuff

4.23 ( 55,584 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

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4.23 (55,584 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 17 October, 2005
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What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out - The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes. The first Americans in space - battling the Russians for control of the heavens, putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While Mr Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching. "The Right Stuff". It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099479376
ISBN10 0099479370
Number Of Pages 448
Item Weight 320 g
Product Dimensions 126 x 30 x 198 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage
Format paperback
Edition New Ed
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The Right Stuff is Wolfe's best book * Sunday Times *
It is Tom Wolfe at his very best...technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic... The Right Stuff is superb * New York Times Book Review *
An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty and fiery death... magnificent * People *
Absolutely first class... Improbable as some of Tom's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was -- Michael Collins, former astronaut
Tom Wolfe', article: `You only had to look at him... or read such books as The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff to know that Tom Wolfe was like no other -- John Pye * The Scotsman *

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Author's Bio

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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