The Right Stuff Summary
Tom Wolfe

Excerpts from the Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Excerpts from The Right Stuff Published in 1979; reprinted in 1980 On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969; served 1953–61)... Read more

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,... Read more

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... Read more

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, improb... Read more

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 Ame... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more