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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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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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The Right Stuff
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979
ISBN 10: 0374250324
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979
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The Right Stuff
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Cloth. Zustand: Collectible Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. Stated First Printing. Octavo, 436 pages. Light gray cloth boards with blue, red and silver lettering. Firm binding; no loose pages. Book with minor wear. Slightly cocked spine. Dust jacket with some wrinkles and small tears along edges and spine top and bottom. Encased in a clear protective cover. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 14751
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Stated First Printing. General wear to cover edges/corners. Spine is blocked. Content pages are clean and unmarked. Page foredges have some foredges have some spotting from poor storage by the previous owner. DJ has general wear to edges/corners, with a 1-inch tear on the bottom edge of the DJ back flap. DJ is not price clipped. 436 pages. Good reading copy of the First Printing of this book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 395709
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The Right Stuff
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979
ISBN 10: 0374250324
ISBN 13: 9780374250324
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Hard. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 22. Inventory ID 658101. Hardcover Cloth 437 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Presumed First edition 1979. Nice white boards with silver, blue and red embossing shows off this tight clean and sound copy with no marks, bookplates or highlights. Bookclub dot on back cover. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. Small stains to top edges of boards and a few stains to cover. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear - tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library or remainder copy.Want to protect the book's dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add Biblio or ABEBooks listing 657791 or eBay item 176708421996 to your purchase.A great reading copy of this best-selling book. 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 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program.After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne. Chuck Yeager was certainly among the fastest, and his determination to push through Mach 1--a feat that some had predicted would cause the destruction of any aircraft--makes him the book's guiding spirit.Yet soon the focus shifts to the seven initial astronauts. Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program.Tom Wolfe was an American author and journalist known for pioneering New Journalism, blending literary techniques with nonfiction reporting. He gained acclaim for works like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff, as well as novels such as The Bonfire of the Vanities. Wolfe's distinctive style, marked by flamboyant prose and social commentary, left a lasting impact on both journalism and American literature. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 658101
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hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition 1st printing. Stated first printing. The pages are clean and unmarked with the exception of a gift inscription on the front flyleaf and some mild shelf soiling on the side edge of the pages. The cover has some mild bumping to the edges. The dust jacket has some bumping on the edges. The dust jacket is nicely wrapped in a clear broadart cover. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 71516L
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition/First Printing. The true first from 1979. The book is sharp and tight, owner name. Jacket has a tear at head of spine and is rather nicked at extremities. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 045271
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Printing stated. [x], [437]pp [spine cocked; previous owner name on front free endpaper; taped tear to dust jacket, other edge wear and general wear to jacket and book] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021636
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