{"product_id":"wright-brothers","title":"Wright Brothers","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOrville 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). 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…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wright Brothers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e soars” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120260616477,"sku":"9781476728759","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781476728759.jpg?v=1751400556","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/wright-brothers","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}