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The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

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The Right Stuff

'What is it,' asks Tom Wolfe, 'that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle...and wait for someone to light the fuse?' Arrogance? Stupidity? Courage? Or, simply, that quality we call 'the right stuff'? A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, The Right Stuff is a voyage into the mythology of the American space programme, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making.

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Publisher
Random House
Year
2018
ISBN-13
9781448181971
Genre
History
Topics
Space raceTest pilots and astronautsCold War era America

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