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Right Stuff
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Right Stuff Hardback - 2005

by Tom Wolfe

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What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out - The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes. The first Americans in space - battling the Russians for control of the heavens, putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While Mr Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching. The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage.

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First published in 1979 to extraordinary acclaim, Tom Wolfe's landmark work became an instant bestseller, going on to sell more than 2.5 million copies. It is a true story that is as exciting as the best fiction--the tale of American heroes Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--men who were willing to put their lives on the line in pursuit of the final frontier.

With stunning accuracy and captivating prose, Wolfe recounts the details of the lives of these men, their families, and of NASA's Project Mercury program. The result is a vivid history that could only be enhanced by actual historic photographs.

The Right Stuff Illustrated includes hundreds of photographs and reproductions of documents and memorabilia pertaining to the Project Mercury program, the current events surrounding the program, and the political climate that led up to the missions in the early 1960's. It's the perfect gift book for lovers of history and the space program, as well as the millions of fans of The Right Stuff.

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WITHIN FIVE MINUTES, OR TEN MINUTES, NO MORE THAN that three of the others had called her on the telephone to ask her if she had heard that something had happened out there.

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  • Title Right Stuff
  • Author Tom Wolfe
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York
  • Publication date May 1, 2005
  • ISBN 9781579124588 / 1579124585
  • Weight 3.42 lbs (1.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.5 x 9.5 x 1.01 in (29.21 x 24.13 x 2.57 cm)
  • Reading level 1110
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.109

About the author

Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such
contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and
The Bonfire of the Vanities. His most recent bestseller is I Am
Charlotte Simmons
(Nov. 2004). A native of Richmond, Virginia,
he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a
Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.

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