About the Book: The Wright Brothers
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown
brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to
believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first
heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how
was it that they achieved what they did? David McCullough, two-time winner of
the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly human story of Wilbur and
Orville Wright. Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics
who happened to hit on success, they were men