12/1/2015BookFilter | Evernote Web https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=c2ebc52c-51ce-4057-af4e-4f5af57928e4&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&1/2HomeTop Picks: All BooksThe Wright Brothers MoreThe Wright Brothersby David McCulloughPrice: $30.00(Hardcover)Published: May 05, 2015Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)From the Publisher: Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize DavidMcCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about thecourageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur andOrville Wright.On December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur andOrville Wright’s Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilotaboard.</p><p> The Age of Flight had begun.</p><p> How did they do it? Andwhy? David McCullough tells the extraordinary and truly Americanstory of the two brothers who changed the world.Sons of an itinerant preacher and a mother who died young,Wilbur and Orville Wright grew up in a small side street in Dayton,Ohio, in a house that lacked indoor plumbing and electricity butwas filled with books and a love of learning.</p><p> The brothers ran abicycle shop that allowed them to earn enough…Rate This Book|Rate/ReviewAdd To BookshelfGet This Book Go to your preferred retailer, click to choose a format and you' ll be taken directly to their site whereyou can get this book.BookFilter12/1/2015BookFilter | Evernote Web https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=c2ebc52c-51ce-4057-af4e-4f5af57928e4&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&2/2 Personalize / Add More ChoicesWhat We SayBest-selling, acclaimed historian David McCullough is in solid form on his biography of The Wright Brothers.</p><p> Withclear, lucid prose, he tells the story of the two men who revolutionized man-powered aviation.</p><p> One surprise for thosewho like me don't know much more than Kitty Hawk is how hard it was for the Wright brothers to convince the worldwhat they'd accomplished long AFTER their historic flight.</p><p> The nutters and dreamers with hare-brained schemeswere widespread.</p><p> Even government-backed projects at the Smithsonian fell flat.</p><p> Major scientists had declaredgenuine machine-powered flight was mathematically impossible.</p><p> And then the Wright brothers did it.</p><p> They're oddducks, actually, never marrying, sober, modest and focused on their work.</p><p> Mama's boys, you'd call them, if theirmama hadn't died when they were young.</p><p> Various mysteries remain -- Wilbur's three-year retreat from the world as ayoung man after a local bully attacked him, Orville's feelings of deep betrayal when his sister finally married late in life-- but their great accomplishment is illuminated.</p><p> They flew and flew again and again.</p><p> McCullough captures theirfrustrations, their accomplishments and their ultimate wowing of the world with economy and grace.</p><p> It's a narrowlyfocused work and the brothers are so impenetrable that this won't rank as among his best.</p><p> But it's popular history ofthe best sort. -- Michael GiltzLessWhat You SayFilter byNo Reviews Found .....
