Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff Paperback Book

A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of Americas early space programme. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLYWhat 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 whitehot edge of history in the making. Tom Wolfe at his very best... Learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic...The Right Stuff is superb New York Times Book Review | Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff Paperback Book