The Right Stuff - Softcover

Wolfe, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312427565 ISBN 13: 9780312427566

Verlag: Picador, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Wolfe Tom

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Críticas:

"Technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic . . . The Right Stuff is superb." --The New York Times Book Review

"One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril." --The Boston Globe

"An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty, and fiery death . . . Magnificent." --People

"Absolutely first class . . . Improbable as some of Wolfe's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was." --The Washington Post Book World

"Crammed with inside poop and racy incident . . . fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system . . . Wolfe lays it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes." --Time

"Splendid . . . It shows our propensity to manufacture heroes, and, just as quickly, to forget them; it shows how a scientific program was exploited for political advantage; it provides a revealing character study of seven exceptional Americans." --The Saturday Review

Reseña del editor:

The moments of grandeur and weakness, the aspirations, and the problems of America's test pilots and first astronauts are revealed in an exploration of the dimensions of their inner lives in space and on the earth. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0312427565
• ISBN 13: 9780312427566
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368