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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe | |
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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. | | Birth Date: |
March 2, 1931 | | Place of Birth: |
Richmond, Virginia, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
journalist, novelist |
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 Biography of Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.
949 words, approx. 3.2 pages
 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, on March 2, 1931, the son of Thomas Kennerly and Hel... summary from source:
 Biography of Tom Wolfe
5254 words, approx. 17.5 pages
 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 stylists and satirists, although he demurs at the latter labe... summary from source:
Biography of Tom Wolfe
4578 words, approx. 15.3 pages
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 nearly every component of Wolfe's work including his ch...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Excerpts from the Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Summary
2,340 words, approx. 8 pagesExcerpts from The Right Stuff Published in 1979; reprinted in 1980 On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969; served 1953–61) signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, officially creating the National Aeronautics... summary from source:
 The Right Stuff Information
1,856 words, approx. 6 pages
<i>The Right Stuff</i> is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe, and a 1983 film adapted from the book. They recount the story of the first seven astronauts selected for the NASA space program, based on interviews and research by Wolfe. The story contrasts the...
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 AP News Famed test pilot said at fault in crash
9/27/2007: 686 words, approx. 2 pagesPilot Scott Crossfield, the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound, and an air traffic controller were blamed Thursday for the crash of a single-engine plane during a thunderstorm last year that killed Crossfield.A test pilot who personified "the right stuff" during... summary from source:
AP News Tom Wolfe has new book, new publisher
1/2/2008: 437 words, approx. 2 pagesTom Wolfe is working on a new novel and will release it through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and signing with Little, Brown and Co."The opportunity to work with the American master Tom Wolfe is the kind of...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Laurie Stone
823 words, approx. 3 pages
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 described or explained. Anyone crass enough to try and put it into words ipso facto probably doesn't have it. Tom Wolfe is crass enough to try and put the right stuff into words, which ipso facto probably means he doesn't have it…. [But] writing about the right stuff and thinking about the right stuff from the point of ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Martha Heimberg
546 words, approx. 2 pages
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…. [By] and large, Wolfe's reporting, while being marvelously entertaining writing, has also represented a telling and trust-worthy point of view. His is one of those finely critical intelligences that can detect the slightest pretention or falsification in an official posture or social pose. And, when he does, he goes after the hypocris... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Rachel Mark
476 words, approx. 2 pages
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 he has produced some of the most brilliant social criticism to see print, and allied himself with the defenders of this country…. Wolfe's formidable literary virtues are at work in [The Right Stuff], providing every bit of the graceful language that is always his strong suit, and, better, rendering a portrait of true old-fashio...
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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe | |
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About 128 pages (38,237 words) in 13 products |
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