The Right Stuff Av Tom Wolfe

<p><b>A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, <i>The Right Stuff</i> is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America''s early space programme.</b><br><br>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY<br><br>¿What is it,¿ asks Tom Wolfe, ¿that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle¿and wait for someone to light the fuse?¿ Arrogance? Stupidity? Courage? Or, simply, that quality we call ''the right stuff''?<br><br>A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, <i>The Right Stuff</i> is a voyage into the mythology of the American space programme, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making.<br><br>¿Tom Wolfe at his very best¿ Learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic...<i>The Right Stuff</i> is superb¿ <i>New York Times Book Review</i></p>