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From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) - a amazing epic, a magnificent adventure story, and a study in to the true heroism and courage of the first People in america to overcome space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review) Millions of words have poured forth about man's visit to the moon, but as yet few people have had a sense of the most engrossing area of the adventure: namely, what went on in the imagination of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It really is this, the internal life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe details along with his almost uncanny empathetic power that made The Right Stuff a vintage. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tom Wolfe is the writer of more than a dozen catalogs, among them such modern-day classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acidity Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full. A local of Richmond, Virginia, he acquired his B.A. at Washington and Lee School and a PhD. in American studies at Yale. He lives in NEW YORK. ABOUT THE NARRATOR Dennis Quaid is renowned for his distinct portrayals in both comedic and dramatic roles within the last forty years. Quaid can next be observed in Roadside Attraction's faith-based film I CAN ONLY JUST Imagine which is released on March 16, 2018. Dennis lately stared in Crackle's auctioneering episode The Art work of More which he also served as an executive producer. On the big screen, he was just lately seen starring in Universal's A Dog's Goal as well as in the fact-based episode Truth. He will next commence filming the third season of the BAFTA award-nominated television series Fortitude and just lately completed production on Lionsgate's Kin with James Franco. Quaid started to get attention in the overdue 1970s for functions in such movies as Breaking Away before increasing general public and critical acclaim for his role in the 1983 release The Right Stuff. Other significant credits include The First year, The Day After Tomorrow, Traffic, Vantage Point, Regularity, The Father or mother Trap, and Heart and soul Surfer. For his role in Todd Haynes' A lot from Heaven he gained the New York Film Critics Group Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the web Film Critics World Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Indie Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. This year 2010 he was nominated for numerous prizes including a SAG Award®, an Emmy© and a Golden World© for his portrayal of Costs Clinton in the TV Movie, A Special Romantic relationship.