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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
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. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review)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.
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Book Details

Genre: 

  • Historical Nonfiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
The Right Stuff review by SHC
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SHC

Seven test pilots are chose to participate in the Mercury project that will combat the Russians in the race to space. They leave behind the Yeager era of pushing the envelop in the newest fighter planes and risk there lives in rockets that they have little control over. The seven must learn to cooperate with each other while competing with the same men for the first flight. They begin as heroes and return as even greater heroes, doing work that some thought would save western life as we now know it.

Rating:
5
Five Star Award
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