by Tom Wolfe · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330318198
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«The Right Stuff» is Tom Wolfe's chronicle of the space race, published by Pan Macmillan in paperback (364 pages, in English).
Tom Wolfe portrays the culture of test pilots and the quality he calls «the right stuff», that blend of courage and pride that drove the first American astronauts. Through figures such as Chuck Yeager, John Glenn and Gus Grissom, he narrates the competition with the Soviet Union and the constant danger of those who sat atop a rocket waiting for the fuse to be lit.
The work was originally published in 1979 and won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1980.
The book is aimed at readers interested in the space race, the history of aviation and narrative journalism.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.
