A complete lesson plan by BookRags. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.

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...

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...

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...

Excerpts 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...

The Right Stuff 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 "Mercury...

Pilot 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...

Tom 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...

A south Georgia woman bloodied in a car wreck says she owes her life to a German shepherd who _ thankfully _ just wouldn't stay in his yard.Shannon Lorio says that after her car careened down an embankment, the wayward dog found her bruised and...

A Gallaudet University alumnus and former professor was named interim president of the nation's premier school for the deaf, the university announced Sunday.The board of trustees selected Robert R. Davila, 74, to run the school for up to two years. The board rescinded the selection...

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 ...

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...

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...