The Right Stuff

By: Tom Wolfe

History

tom wolfe began the right stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate american heroism. nixon had left the white house in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--americans were being held hostage by iranian militants. yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated wolfe. in his foreword,...