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Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff: A Novel

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The moments of grandeur and weakness, the aspirations, and the problems of America's test pilots and first astronauts are revealed in an exploration of the dimensions of their inner lives in space and on the earth. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
 

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Inside Look at Americans' First Foray Into Outer Space

Date of Review:  Jun 7, 2006
The Bottom Line: Recommended. It's a well-researched account of America's Mercury space program. It deepens your understanding of how the program developed and the psychological underpinnings of the first astronauts.
Review: The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe, tells the story of the United States' early space race against the Soviet Union. Its central focus is the original seven astronauts and the Mercury program whose goal was to put men in orbit around the earth.

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Authors Tom Wolfe
Fiction Genre Biography & Autobiography
Fiction Subgenre Unknown

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  Washington Post Book World: "I lived at Edwards [Air Force Base] for four years and improbable as some of Tom's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was.... He's obviously done a lot of homework--too much is some cases.... Some of this stuff could only be interesting to Al Shepard's mother, while the first part of the book is a paean to guts, to the 'right stuff,' it is followed by a chronology--but one that might have profited form a little tighter editing. But it's still light-years ahead of the endless drivel Mailer has put out about the Apollo program and in places the Wolfe genius really shines."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA (March 04, 2008)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.75 lbs.
ISBN: 9780312427566
 

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