The Right Stuff

“Technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic … The Right Stuff is superb.” –The New York Times Book Review

“One of the most romantic and thrilling books ever written about men who put themselves in peril.” –The Boston Globe

“An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty, and fiery death … Magnificent.” –People

“Absolutely first class … Improbable as some of Wolfe’s tales seem, I know he’s telling it like it was.” –The Washington Post Book World

“Crammed with inside poop and racy incident … fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system … Wolfe lays it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes.” –Time

“Splendid … It shows our propensity to manufacture heroes, and, just as quickly, to forget them; it shows how a scientific program was exploited for political advantage; it provides a revealing character study of seven exceptional Americans.” –The Saturday Review

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such classics as The Right Stuff and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, along with several novels including The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. His numerous honors include the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal. He lived in New York City.