The Right Stuff

Name: The Right Stuff
Author: Tom Wolfe

by Tom Wolfe

Narrative nonfiction: Mercury Seven astronauts and space race test pilots

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Tom Wolfe

American journalist and novelist who co-founded New Journalism, applying the techniques of fiction to nonfiction to create a vivid, participatory, maximalist style. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff are his nonfiction masterpieces. He later became a bestselling novelist with Bonfire of the Vanities.

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