The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
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 ...
Publish Date
2008
March 4
First Published in 1979
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4.2
ISBN
9780312427566
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Dec 06, 2020
Here are just three books that will, I think, have wide appeal, for a variety of humans:
• Mother Nature: Maternal instincts and how they shape the human species, Sarah Blaffer-Hrdy
• The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
• Tribe: On homecoming and belonging, by Sebastian Junger – source