The Right Stuff
Author(s): Tom Wolfe
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. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review)
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.
Review(s):
“Technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic . . . The Right Stuff is superb.” —The New York Times Book Review
“One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril.” —The Boston Globe
“An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty, and fiery death . . . Magnificent.” —People
“Absolutely first class . . . Improbable as some of Wolfe's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Crammed with inside poop and racy incident . . . fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system . . . Wolfe lays it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes.” —Time
“Splendid . . . It shows our propensity to manufacture heroes, and, just as quickly, to forget them; it shows how a scientific program was exploited for political advantage; it provides a revealing character study of seven exceptional Americans.” —The Saturday Review
Nominated National Book Critics Circle Awards - Nominee (1979), Winner National Book Awards - Winner (1980), Winner National Book Awards - Winner (1979), Nominated National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee (1979), National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee (1979)
ISBN: 9780312427566