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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Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 448 p. Audience: General/trade. First printing. There is a gift inscription on the half-title page, an owner's ink stamp, and a few marginal notes. Page edges speckled.
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Hardcover. NOT Ex-library. Good condition. Dust jacket included. Clean pages and tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona.
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Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 448 p. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover Cloth 437 pages. Condition Good Dust Jacket Good. Presumed First edition 1979. Worn white boards with silver, blue, & red embossing shows off this tight and sound copy with no marks, bookplates or highlights. Bookclub dot on back cover. Shelf wear with bumped corners. Spotting to edges. Fading to edges of boards. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of age. An unclipped dust jacket protected by Brodart cover is discolored with age with the usual shelf wear-tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library or remainder copy. A good 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. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; 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.
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Good. Stated first printing. Edge wear and chipping to jacket. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.
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Good. Size: 12x9x0; First Edition, First Printing. No Dustjacket, No Writing in text, some wear to page edges and cover. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Mild overall wear on the boards and the dust jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, . Hardcover First Edition, First Printing. The book condition is Good. The dust jacket condition is Good.
