Folio Society--THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe--SEALED

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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe London Folio Society Bound in buckram, blocked with a design by Matt Broughton. Set in Scala with Serpentine display. Frontispiece and 24 pages of color plates. 9" x 6¼", 336 pages. He was a hundred thousand feet up, dropping towards the ocean like an enormous cannonball ... Either theparachute deployed and took hold or it didn’t.’ The early days of the space race possessed a glamour and intensity that made every little boy want to be an astronaut. But one might also ask: why would a grown man choose to sit on top of a huge firework and wait for another guy to set it off? Tom Wolfe’s modern classic tells the thrilling story of the heady beginnings of the United States’ space missions. Everyone involved knew this was w the action was. Alan Shepard, Charles Yeager, Gus Grissom, John Glenn... were all crack aviators with the ‘right stuff ’, that elusive quality beyond mere bravery which propelled the first Americans into space, battling the Russians for control of the heavens. From the x-1 test flights through to the Mercury missions, Wolfe looks at the men behind the mirrored visors, describing their fantastic individual achievements and incorporating interviews with the astronauts themselves: Yeager breaking the sound barrier in 1947 (‘T’s something wrong with this ol’ machometer ... it’s gone kinda read more

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