The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
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Recommended by 7 notable people, including Richard Branson and Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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Recommended by 10 sources and appears in Nonfiction, Adventure, and Physics.
Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979the year the book appearedAmericans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his ...
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