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David McCullough's The Wright Brothers | Summary
David McCullough's The Wright Brothers | Summary
David McCullough's The Wright Brothers | Summary
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This is a Summary of The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot.

Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed.

In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency...about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished...The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).

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Release dateApr 7, 2016
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    Table of Contents

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    SUMMARY

    PART I

    Chapter 1: Beginnings

    Chapter 2: The Dream Takes Hold

    Chapter 3: Where the Winds Blew

    Chapter 4: Unyielding Resolve

    PART II

    Chapter 5: December 17, 1903

    Chapter 6: Out at Huffman Prairie

    Chapter 7: A Capital Exhibit A

    Chapter 8: Triumph at Le Mans

    PART III

    Chapter 9: The Crash

    Chapter 10: A Time Like No Other

    Chapter 11: Causes for Celebration

    Epilogue

    Analysis

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    This book review by David McCullough offers an insightful summary of The Wright Brothers, followed by an analysis. The book provides an historical perspective inspired by extensive historical materials, public records, and personal journals to illustrate the Wright brothers as people of great character and resolve on their way to making aviation history.

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