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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.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- ISBN: 9781250338358
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.25 x 1.00
- Number Of Pages: 384
- Publication Year: 2024
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Tom Wolfe's Hilarious Cultural Commentary
Jonah N. - 6 years 4 months agoCan't believe this hasn't been reviewed by anyone. It's an absolute classic. What the description fails to tell you is that this is one of the most irreverent and amusing books ever written about America's space program. Tom Wolfe (RIP) is simply the most unique and funny nonfiction author of the past fifty years, and he's at the top of his game here as he traces the men and women who eventually won the Space Race from the X-1 through Apollo. But even as he tells the often inspiring story of the test pilots who became the astronauts, he's using their experiences to poke holes in the hysterically overblown image the American government worked to create of the space program's importance. In the same way that "Dr. Strangelove" skewered the "logic" of nuclear weapons, Wolfe's "Right Stuff" makes smithereens of the polished pedestal our nation constructed for the space program--but he does so without degrading what it stood for. It's a book about the creation of American myths, but Wolfe believes in the myths. It's truly both hilarious and heartfelt, and a tremendously original piece of nonfiction that reads like a novel. This is one of my favorite books ever written, and it's worth owning in hardcover. You'll want to keep it forever.