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作者： Neal Thompson 著
出 版 社： 东至影音 (代销)
出版时间： 2005-3-1字数：版次： 1页数： 533印刷时间： 2005/03/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781400081226包装： 平装编辑推荐
“Wonderful and gripping ...The can’t-put-it-down story of a modern swashbuckler determined to conquer the universe whatever the risk. In Thompson’s hands, an amazing life, the ultimate American life, comes alive so exquisitely.”
—Buzz Bissinger, New York Times bestselling author of Friday Night Lights
“Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle.”
—Alan Shepard to NASA technicians, at liftoff for America’s first manned spaceflight
“Just what a biography should be: sharp, evocative, and brisk.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Thompson provides the fullest portrait [of Shepard] yet. Does much to illuminate the life and personality of perhaps the most private and complex member of the Mercury Seven.”
—Library Journal
内容简介
Alan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America’s original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic, he was among the most private of America’s public figures and, until his death in 1998, he guarded the story of his life zealously.
Light This Candle, based on Neal Thompson’s exclusive access to private papers and interviews with Shepard’s family and closest friends—including John Glenn, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper—offers a riveting, action-packed account of Shepard’s life.
作者简介
Neal Thompson is a veteran journalist who has worked for the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and St. Petersburg Times. He has also written for numerous national magazines, including Outside, Men’s Health, Backpacker, and the Washington Post Magazine. Thompson lives with his wife and their two sons in Asheville, North Carolina, where he teaches at the University of North Carolina and is writing a book about moonshine, NASCAR, and the South. Visit his website at www.nealthompson.com.
目录
Foreword
Prologue
PARTⅠ IBEFORE SPACE
1 "Alan was really kind of a loner"
2 "I think I love you"
3 "The kamikazes raised hell last night"
4 "UNSAFE FOR SOLO" in Zoom Town
5 A perfectly charming son of a bitch
6 Shepard should be court-martialed
7 "Do you wish to declare an emergency?"
8 "That little rascal"
PARTⅡ INTO SPACE
9 "We made them heroes, the first day they were picked"
10 Eyeballs in, eyeballs out
11 "Aharlot of a town"
12 "I think I got myself in trouble"
13 "We had 'em by the short hairs, and we gave it away"
14 "Light this candle!"
15 "I believe we should go to the moon"
16 "I'm sick.., should I just hang it up?"
17 How to succeed in business without really flying--much
18 "Captain Shepard? I'm Charles Lindbergh"
19 "What's wrong with this ship?"
PARTⅢ AFTER SPACE
20 "When you've been to the moon, where else are you going to go?"
21 "I saw a different Alan Shepard, completely different"
22 "This is the toughest man I've ever met"
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
