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First published in 1979 to extraordinary acclaim, Tom Wolfe’s landmark work became an instant bestseller, going on to sell more than 2.5 million copies. It is a true story that is as exciting as the best fiction—the tale of American heroes Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn—men who were willing to put their lives on the line in pursuit of the final frontier.
With stunning accuracy and captivating prose, Wolfe recounts the details of the lives of these men, their families, and of NASA’s Project Mercury program. The result is a vivid history that could only be enhanced by actual historic photographs.
The Right Stuff Illustrated includes hundreds of photographs and reproductions of documents and memorabilia pertaining to the Project Mercury program, the current events surrounding the program, and the political climate that led up to the missions in the early 1960’s. It’s the perfect gift book for lovers of history and the space program, as well as the millions of fans of The Right Stuff.
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What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out...
The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes. The first Americans in space - battling the Russians for control of the heavens, putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While Mr Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching. The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage.
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The Right Stuff
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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. N° de réf. du vendeur 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. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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. N° de réf. du vendeur 658101
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hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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. N° de réf. du vendeur 71516L
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : 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. N° de réf. du vendeur 045271
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Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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. N° de réf. du vendeur 021636
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The Right Stuff
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Stated first printing. Good condition with an intact dust jacket, with some chipping on the top rear side, now in protective cover. A slight leaning of text block. Pages are clean and no marks. Previous owner's signature on the page of previous books by Wolfe. The boards show signs of wear. N° de réf. du vendeur 000142
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine-. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, New York, USA, 1979. Second (2nd) Printing ("Second Printing, 1979" stated) of the First (1st) Edition. Fine- in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is white, bright, straight but slightly canted, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full gray cloth, color uniform throughout except for watermark from glass on front board, with author's signature embossed in silver on front board, bright red, silver and blue title, etc., to spine, unmarked bright royal blue endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The silver Dust Jacket with a modified American flag on the front flap is bright, colors uniform throughout, and mostly intact with a few small edge chips, and with the original price ($12.95) intact on the front flap. See photos. 436, i pages. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". The story of the post-WW2 space race from test pilots like Chuck Yeager to the Mercury Seven and early manned American space flights, this book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was the basis for the 1983 historical drama of the same name that starred Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, and Barbara Hershey ISBN 10: 0374250324 ISBN 13: 9780374250324. N° de réf. du vendeur 000995
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Book Club Edition (BCE/BOMC). Full cloth binding Book Club hardcover in a jacket. Clean and unmarked. 436pp. Good only jacket moderately rubbed and worn all along edges. Offered now in a new mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 071654
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