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THE RIGHT STUFF
de Wolfe, Tom
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1979). First edition. BOLDLY SIGNED on first blank page BY WOLFE and by ASTRONAUT JOHN GLENN. His best-known, best-selling book which, in Wolfe's own words, grew out of curiosity about what "makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle... and wait for someone to light the fuse." Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction and basis for the Award-winning 1983 film of the same name. Fine in near fine dust jacket with just a touch of very minor creasing and two tiny closed tears.
Sinopsis
What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out - The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes. The first Americans in space - battling the Russians for control of the heavens, putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While Mr Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching. The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage.
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- Librería
- Quill & Brush
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 71740
- Título
- THE RIGHT STUFF
- Autor
- Wolfe, Tom
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- (1979)
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- 0.00 libras
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