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Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
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Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
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The Right Stuff
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979
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Hard. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 22. Inventory ID 658101. Hardcover Cloth 437 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Presumed First edition 1979. Nice white boards with silver, blue and red embossing shows off this tight clean and sound copy with no marks, bookplates or highlights. Bookclub dot on back cover. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. Small stains to top edges of boards and a few stains to cover. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear - tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library or remainder copy.Want to protect the book's dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add Biblio or ABEBooks listing 657791 or eBay item 176708421996 to your purchase.A great reading copy of this best-selling book. 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. Chuck Yeager was certainly among the fastest, and his determination to push through Mach 1--a feat that some had predicted would cause the destruction of any aircraft--makes him the book's guiding spirit.Yet soon the focus shifts to the seven initial astronauts. 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. The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program.Tom Wolfe was an American author and journalist known for pioneering New Journalism, blending literary techniques with nonfiction reporting. He gained acclaim for works like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff, as well as novels such as The Bonfire of the Vanities. Wolfe's distinctive style, marked by flamboyant prose and social commentary, left a lasting impact on both journalism and American literature. Artikel-Nr. 658101
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