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'The Right Stuff': Nat Geo series coming to Disney+ in fall

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'The Right Stuff': Nat Geo series coming to Disney+ in fall

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Leonardo DiCaprio producing 'Right Stuff' series for National Geographic

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Leonardo DiCaprio producing 'Right Stuff' series for National Geographic

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I have sympathy with what George Bush is trying to do ...
Author Tom Wolfe sympathizes with Bush Nov 01, 2004

I think support for Bush is about not wanting to be led by East Coast pretensions. It is about not wanting to be led by people who are forever trying to force their twisted sense of morality onto us, which is a non-morality. That is constantly done, and there is real resentment
Author Tom Wolfe sympathizes with Bush Nov 01, 2004

Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. (born March 2, 1931, although his Who's Who entry gives his date of birth as March 2, 1930) is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia to Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Sr.

Wolfe was student council president, editor of the school newspaper and a star baseball player at St. Christopher's School, an Episcopalian all-boys school in Richmond, Virginia.

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