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The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
1979
(Seven pilots scale the ziggurat of manliness on the quest to be America’s space heroes.)
Tom Wolfe probably awoke one morning and thought to himself, wouldn’t it be great if reading about current events were as fun as reading novels? And with as simple an idea as that, he kicked off the movement known as New Journalism. And Wolfe sure is fun to read!
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