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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.
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Excerpts from the Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
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Published in 1979; reprinted in 1980
On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969; served 1953–61)...
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American journalist and novelist Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. (born 1931), was a major figure in the "New Journalism" which began in the 1960s.Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., was born in Richmond, Virginia,...
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The foremost theorist and best-known practitioner of New Journalism, Tom Wolfe has become almost synonymous with the journalistic movement he helped foster in the mid 1960s. Critics praise or reject n...
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Tom Wolfe might be called the literary son of Mark Twain. Famous for his white suits and his high-speed, highly exclamatory, highly italicized delivery, Wolfe is one of America's leading prose stylis...
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Critical Essay by Michael Collins
[A major share of The Right Stuff] is devoted to unraveling the mystique of the test pilot….
I lived at Edwards [Air Force Base] for four years and, improbable...
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Critical Essay by Laurie Stone
There's nothing in this world that certain white, small-town, God-fearing, airplane-flying boys hanker after so much as the right stuff. The right stuff cannot be...
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Critical Essay by Ronald Hayman
Tom Wolfe has never applied the techniques of fiction to nonfiction more carefully, more elaborately or more successfully than in The Right Stuff, his study of the Amer...
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Critical Essay by Martha Heimberg
The Right Stuff represents a departure for the satirist, whose observant eye and caustic pen have impaled on the page a wide range of American social phenomena…...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Mortimer
Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff is about the first American astronauts, and it is not a great example of 'New Journalism'. Like all Wolfe's ...
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Critical Essay by Eric Korn
Postures of glory came naturally to the first seven men to be chosen from the combative and competitive brotherhood of military test pilots, men constantly struggling to ke...
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Critical Essay by Rachel Mark
Over the years Tom Wolfe has set his original mind to caustic descriptions of people who have done much to nurse along American self-denigration…. In the process h...
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