The Right Stuff
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Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series.
From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)—a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "
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 empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.
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Tom Wolfe. (2008). The Right Stuff. Revised Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Tom Wolfe. 2008. The Right Stuff. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Tom Wolfe. The Right Stuff. Revised Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
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Starred review from May 1, 2008
Wolfe's 1979 volume chronicled the handful of adrenaline-junkie military test pilots who became the Mercury astronauts. Their story is juxtaposed against that of Chuck Yeager, the ace of aces pilot who broke the sound barrier but couldn't apply to the space program because he lacked a college degree. Wolfe also provides insight into the political motivations for the space race and the paranoia of the Cold War. A terrific read from beginning to end, and, unlike "Bonfire" above, the film version is fabulous (make sure to have it in your DVD collection).Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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