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The Right Stuff

Name: The Right Stuff
Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Author: Tom Wolfe
ISBN: 9780312427566

Tom Wolfe · 2004 · 436 pages

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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Peter Thiel
“‘What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle…and wait for someone to light the fuse?’ Wolfe asks that question in his classic about the test pilots who became the first astronauts. It’s both a great history of the space race and a meditation on how to steel yourself to take risks.”↗
Glenn Kirschner
“@KatieOGrady4 Thank you, Katie. Loved that book - The Right Stuff.”↗
Heather E Heying
“Here are just three books that will, I think, have wide appeal, for a variety of humans: • Mother Nature: Maternal instincts and how they shape the human species, Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy • The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe • Tribe: On homecoming and belonging, by Sebastian Junger”↗
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