Right stuff (Vintage Publishing)

A wildly vivid and entertaining bronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test WITH AN INTRODUCTION by US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY 'What is it' asks Tom Wolfe, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle...

and wait for someone to light the fuse$47' Arrogance$48 Stupidity$49 Bravery$50 Courage$51 Or, simply, that quality we call 'the right stuff'$52 A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, The Right Stuff is a voyage into the mythology of the American space program, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making.

Tom Wolfe at his very best... Learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic...