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The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff
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The Right Stuff Hardback - 1983

by Wolfe, Tom

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine+. Super, close to new copy. Nudged at spine ends. First printing of the 'new' edition of 1983. New introduction by Wolfe.

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  • Title The Right Stuff
  • Author Wolfe, Tom
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition/First Printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine+
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 1983
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 047214
  • ISBN 9780374250331 / 0374250332
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.57 x 5.85 x 1.43 in (21.77 x 14.86 x 3.63 cm)
  • Reading level 1110
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.45
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

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About this book

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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From the publisher

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 emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.

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