{"product_id":"the-right-stuff-tom-wolfe-9781784873714","title":"The Right Stuff","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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?' Arrogance? Stupidity? Courage? Or, simply, that quality we call 'the right stuff'?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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 programme, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Tom Wolfe at his very best... Learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic...The Right Stuff is superb' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176516059379,"sku":"9781784873714","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781784873714.jpg?v=1662085315","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-right-stuff-tom-wolfe-9781784873714","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}