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poisonpill posted:*Ding ding ding* Tbh, while I liked The Right Stuff (despite a few how-could-he-really-have-known-that? reservations), the more I read about Wolfe, the more I dislike and distrust him. The stuff about Wolfe's PhD dissertation in this article comes to mind. The Vanity Fair article mentions it to portray Wolfe as a mischievous iconoclast in conflict with the stodgy fellow-traveler-of-fellow-travelers professors, and I can't say I have much sympathy for the professors, but the article still makes clear that Wolfe was guilty of some pretty serious dishonesty. Vanity Fair posted:To top it all off … he’d taken some license with the details. One outraged reviewer compared Wolfe’s text with his cited sources and attached the comparison. Sample Wolfe passage: “At one point ‘the Cuban delegation’ tramped in. It was led by a fierce young woman named Lola de la Torriente. With her bobbed hair, leather jacket, and flat-heeled shoes, she looked as though she had just left the barricades. Apparently she had. ‘This is where our literature is being built,’ exclaimed she, ‘on the barricades!’ ” Huffed the reviewer: “There is no description of her in the source, and the quotations do not appear in the reference.”
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