The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

tom wolfe spent four years getting the language of the astronauts and their wives. He found out that chak yeger was the pre eminent fighter pilot of world war too. And he was so great and such a balzy character that every airline pilot from the end of world war to the present day has taken on his particular way of speech. The right stuff is about, you know, the birth ofhe the nuclear agent and and a astronots, and it's an amazing book.