The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
Category: History
Narrator: Dennis Quaid
Tags: History, Bestsellers, Autobiography & Biographies
Length : 15 Hrs 42 Mins, From Americas nerviest journalist (Newsweek) - a breathtaking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. Tom Wolfe at his very best (The New York Times Book Review), Millions of words have poured forth about mans trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure: namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers that made The Right Stuff a classic., ABOUT THE AUTHOR :, Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man In Full. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee U
