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1979, ISBN: 0374250324

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[EAN: 9780374250324], [SC: 39.83], [PU: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York], LITERATURE, Jacket, First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Wolfe's classic look at NASA and the early a… More...

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1979, ISBN: 0374250324

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[EAN: 9780374250324], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 35.35], [PU: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York], Jacket, 436pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray cloth covered boards with blue and red ink stamp… More...

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The Right Stuffothesis Hanged Man - Wolfe, Tim; Wolfe, Tom James; Foote, Shelby
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The Right Stuffothesis Hanged Man - First edition

1979

ISBN: 0374250324

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1979, ISBN: 9780374250324

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1979, ISBN: 9780374250324

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Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."

Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne.

Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780374250324
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0374250324
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Publishing year: 1979
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

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ISBN/EAN: 9780374250324

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0-374-25032-4, 978-0-374-25032-4
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Book author: tom wolfe, shelby foote, tim james
Book title: the right stuff

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