The Right Stuff | Characters
Many of the "characters" in The Right Stuff were actual participants in the programs Wolfe describes; most of them were alive at the time of publication. The book is largely about the heroism of men with The Right Stuff — that combination of bravery, pride, skill, luck, and health — epitomized by Chuck Yeager. Yeager is a compendium of American virtues: fearless, dedicated, cool, self-possessed, and unpretentious. Wolfe depicts Yeager as a self-made man who rose from humble origins without a college education to the top of a highly competitive system, a great ziggurat...
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